The composer Missy Mazzoli, driven by personal loss, has turned America’s overdose epidemic into a dark, fantastical allegory.
Category: Opera
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With ‘The Galloping Cure’ in Edinburgh, Missy Mazzoli Tackles the Opioid Crisis
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Their Forefather Was a Grocer and Mozart’s Most Important Librettist
The New York Times – Music:Generations on, Lorenzo Da Ponte’s family keeps alive the memory of this poet and libertine, who ended up in the middle of Pennsylvania after being booted from Venice and Vienna.
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‘Lili Elbe,’ Opera About Trans Heroine of ‘The Danish Girl,’ Is Timely
The New York Times – Music:Lili Elbe’s story was told in “The Danish Girl.” Now Tobias Picker’s opera about her life, with a trans opera singer in the lead role, is making its U.S. premiere.
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‘Lili Elbe,’ Opera About Trans Heroine of ‘The Danish Girl,’ Is Timely
The New York Times – Music:Lili Elbe’s story was told in “The Danish Girl.” Now Tobias Picker’s opera about her life, with a trans opera singer in the lead role, is making its U.S. premiere.
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Review: A Soprano’s Sound Floods the Met in ‘Ariadne’
Lise Davidsen unleashed rare grandeur of tone throughout her range in the title role of Strauss’s opera.
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He Break Dances. He Pole Dances. He Sings Like an Angel.
The Polish countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski has the credits you’d expect for a fast-rising classical music star, and some others you might not.
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Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led arts organizations to reconsider who performs, forcing them to confront questions about free speech and policing political views.
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Metropolitan Opera Will Host Concert in Support of Ukraine
“We want Putin to know he is the enemy of artists and that we are united against his horrific actions,” the company’s general manager said.
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Cities and States Are Easing Covid Rules. Should the Arts Follow?
Cultural institutions face tough decisions: Is it safe to drop mask and vaccine requirements, and would doing so be more likely to lure audiences back or keep them away?
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Review: Leonard Bernstein’s ‘A Quiet Place’ at the Paris Opera
In Paris, a new production of “A Quiet Place” makes a strong case for a work that has long struggled to join the repertory.