Category: Lien, Mimi

Review: ‘The Seasons’ Jumbles Warnings About Climate Crisis

An operatic Vivaldi pastiche, with a new story by Sarah Ruhl, offers an ambivalent message about how art can make people pay attention.
‘Galas’ Review: A Vocally Gifted Paper Doll

Charles Ludlam’s camp tribute to Maria Callas, featuring the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, is glamorous to a fault at Little Island.
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.
The Inspirations Behind the Met Opera’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’

The inspirations behind the staging of “Antony and Cleopatra,” which imagines a world in which celebrities can be tantamount to gods.
Review: A Devastated Drone Pilot Opens the Met Opera’s Season

Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s bloodless “Grounded,” about a fighter pilot turned dissociating drone operator, stars the mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo.
A New Opera Mashes Up Monteverdi and W.E.B. Du Bois

“The Comet/Poppea” radically pares down a classic and blends it with a premiere by George E. Lewis for an original show that will travel widely.
Who Needs a Shave? ‘Sweeney Todd’ Is Back.

The New York Times – Music:
Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford and a starry creative team are hoping there’s an appetite for Broadway’s first full-scale revival of Sondheim’s Grand Guignol masterpiece in 43 years.