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In a New Staging of the Tale of William Tell, the Only Flaw Is the Audience

Avatar photo by John Sherer and Andrew Summers October 31, 2016

Musically and visually, the Metropolitan Opera’s first staging of Gioachino Rossini’s Guillaume Tell in over 80 years is a tremendous success.

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An Operatic Lament for the Lonely Artist

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 13, 2016September 13, 2016

“When we meet the very best, we have to give up,” baritone Rod Gilfry intoned in The Loser, composer David Lang’s one-act opera that debuted last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

Posted inArt

How Chagall, Sendak, Hockney, and Other Artists Staged the Fantasies of ‘The Magic Flute’

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 21, 2016July 22, 2016

As an opera where a colossal snake and enchanted instrument play a pivotal role, perhaps it’s no surprise Mozart’s The Magic Flute inspired some fantastic set and costume designs since its debut in 1791.

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An Opera of Love Songs to Science

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 14, 2016April 14, 2016

“Maybe there’s a physicist sitting right beside you, who can explain this better than we do, but we’re in the business of art, so we’ll make a metaphor,” sings Hai-Ting Chinn in Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments.

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An Opera About Plucking and Pimping Fallen Angels

by Natalie Axton January 11, 2016January 11, 2016

The opera Angel’s Bone, having its world premiere at the Prototype festival, opens with a married woman fantasizing about telling her husband that she doesn’t love him.

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With Work by Living Composer, Canadian Opera Company Embraces the Edges of Its Art

by Catherine Kustanczy October 30, 2015November 3, 2015

TORONTO — What do you get when you pair the work of a living composer with that of one from the 17th century?

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Opera in Yellowface Hastily Canceled After Public Outrage

by Zack Sigel September 22, 2015October 2, 2015

“White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it,” Jenny Zhang, the poet and Rookie magazine contributor, wrote in an article for BuzzFeed about the erasure of Asian American narratives in Western culture.

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As the Met Abandons Blackface, a Look at the Legacy of African Americans in Opera

by Alison Kinney August 3, 2015August 10, 2015

Inevitably, the history of Black American opera chronicles not just perseverance and accomplishment, but also racism and exclusion.

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An Opera Filmed at the Largest Particle Physics Lab in the World

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 23, 2015April 24, 2015

A movie set amongst the machines of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics facility, considers how both art and science strive to understand the universe, and what it is to be human.

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Trading Stage for Warehouse, a New Organization Brings Opera to Brooklyn

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 12, 2014March 14, 2014

The L train was out of order and the night was freezing, but that didn’t stop a crowd from packing into a Bushwick warehouse earlier this month for the last weekend of Puccini’s La Bohème, staged by the Brooklyn-based LoftOpera.

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The Public Spectacle of a Personal Opera in LA’s Union Station

by Sarah Zabrodski November 14, 2013November 13, 2013

LOS ANGELES — A train station is an apt location to tell stories of journeys to lands unknown, particularly when the storytelling method is as unconventional and frontier-pushing as the one deployed in Invisible Cities.

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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Anna Nicole Smith

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 2, 2013October 4, 2013

The quick burn of celebrity has rarely been as spectacular as in the rise and fall of Anna Nicole Smith. “She blazed like a comet, as in a shiny thing in the skies, that hangs around a bit, then suddenly dies, ” as the chorus of newscasters intones in the Anna Nicole opera that just ended its raunchy run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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