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Review: For the Met Opera’s ‘Tosca,’ Third Cast’s a Charm

The bass-baritone Bryn Terfel returned to the Met for the first time in 13 years, alongside Sondra Radvanovsky, one of the great Toscas of our time.

By Joshua Barone

Actors and Actresses Deaths (Obituaries) Metropolitan Opera Opera Schenk, Otto (1930-2025) Theater Theater in der Josefstadt (Vienna, Austria) Vienna State Opera Wagner, Richard

Otto Schenk, Opera Director and Bulwark of Tradition, Dies at 94

A prominent practitioner of the historically grand productions that were once fashionable at the Met, he was especially well known for his stagings of Wagner.

By A.J. Goldmann

Black People Opera Race and Ethnicity Show Boat (Play) Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Target Margin Theater Theater

Why ‘Show Boat’ Is America’s Most Enduring, Unstable Musical

A revival called “Show/Boat: A River” joins a history of reimagining the musical that goes back nearly a century, to its first performances.

By Joshua Barone

Classical Music Content Type: Personal Profile Metropolitan Opera Opera Puccini, Giacomo Terfel, Bryn Tosca (Opera)

Bryn Terfel, Suave and Thundering, Is Back at the Met After 13 Years

The booming bass-baritone stars in Puccini’s “Tosca” after ill-timed injuries kept him away from the Metropolitan Opera, where he was a perennial favorite.

By Zachary Woolfe