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Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening

The Met Orchestra’s season-ending concert at Carnegie Hall featured the premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s “Heath (‘King Lear’ Sketches).”

By Zachary Woolfe

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It’s the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera

As the 2022-23 season ends, the country’s largest performing arts institution looks ahead to a future of fewer titles.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Kaija Saariaho, Pathbreaking Composer, Is Dead at 70

She brought new colors to modernist music, sometimes using electronics, and became the first female living composer to have two operas staged by the Met.

By Joshua Barone

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Review: Tomasz Konieczny Returns to the Met Opera in ‘Dutchman’

After a triumphant house debut in 2019, the bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny brought power and clarity to the title role in “The Flying Dutchman.”

By Oussama Zahr