This innovative company, which won acclaim for staging operas in unconventional spaces and ways, said it could no longer keep up with rising costs.
Category: Opera
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Edmond Dédé’s Opera ‘Morgiane’ to Be Staged for the First Time
Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American, is to be staged for the first time.
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Angel Blue Doubted Her Path in Opera. Now She’s a Star.
Once used to frequent rejection letters, Blue has become a regular on major stages and is singing the title role in “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Classical Music Our Critics Can’t Stop Thinking About
Watch and listen to five recent highlights, including the “Brutalist” soundtrack, the soprano Barbara Hannigan and Strauss singers at the Met Opera.