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150 Years of See and Be Seen at Paris’s Palais Garner Opera House

It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house opened in Paris. Today, it is still a working theater — with 172 performances scheduled for this season.

By Elliott Verdier and Catherine Porter

Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Opera Poetry and Poets Primero Sueno (Opera)

At the Cloisters, Sor Juana’s Words Ring Out in Song

The opera “Primero Sueño” translates Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poem about the soul’s journey into a musical promenade around the Cloisters.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

Classical Music Leon Kosavic Maazel, Lorin Music New York Philharmonic Opera Stutzmann, Nathalie The Ring Without Words (Musical Work) Trevigne, Talise Wagner, Richard

Review: The Philharmonic Breezes Through Wagner’s Epic ‘Ring’

The conductor Nathalie Stutzmann led Lorin Maazel’s coolly efficient 1987 distillation, “The ‘Ring’ Without Words,” at David Geffen Hall.

By Zachary Woolfe

Black Lodge (Opera) BRIC Arts Catapult Opera Culture (Arts) Eat the Document (Opera) HERE Arts Center In a Grove (Opera) La MaMa ETC Opera

At Prototype Festival, Opera With Lynchian Strangeness

This year’s Prototype, a showcase of experimental opera and theater, was stylistically broad but the focus was on the human voice in all its weirdness.

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim