Memorable performances included a pair of Strauss operas, a suave villain, a star soprano in “Fidelio” and a new conductor in “Le Nozze di Figaro.”
Category: Finley, Gerald
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John Adams’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Sags at the Metropolitan Opera
John Adams’s Shakespeare adaptation has been trimmed since its premiere, but still struggles with setting a flood of dense Elizabethan verse.
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In ‘Festen,’ a Nightmare Birthday Becomes an Opera
The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse.