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Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For

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Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For

Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling Lyric Opera of Chicago.

By Zachary Woolfe

Review: Lawrence Brownlee Makes Room for Black Composers

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Review: Lawrence Brownlee Makes Room for Black Composers

Often seen onstage as a star of bel canto opera, this tenor crafted a recital of works by Robert Owens, Margaret Bonds and their successors.

By Oussama Zahr