Donald Palumbo, a mild-mannered but relentless perfectionist, is stepping down after 17 years as the company’s chorus master.
Category: Opera
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Review: The Tragic Story of ‘An American Soldier’ Comes Home
An opera about Danny Chen, an Army private who died by suicide after experiencing racist hazing while serving, was performed in New York, his hometown.
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Review: Lise Davidsen Achieves Strauss’s Ideal in ‘Salome’
Strauss had seemingly impossible standards for a soprano in “Salome.” But Davidsen, making her role debut in Paris, is exactly what he intended.
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A Night to Remember at the Opera, Complete With a Phantom
About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible.
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Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Foreign Experiences’ Returns
Robert Ashley’s 1994 opera “Foreign Experiences,” a portrait of a paranoid mind in free fall, is part of a wave of revivals following his death.
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Review: ‘The Hours’ Returns to the Met Opera With Its Stars
Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato reprised their roles in Kevin Puts’s adaptation of the award-winning novel and film.
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Kelli O’Hara’s Ties to Opera, From ‘The Gilded Age’ to the Met Stage
O’Hara is an unusual kind of triple threat: a star of Broadway and television who is appearing at the Metropolitan Opera in a revival of “The Hours.”
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Review: Asmik Grigorian’s Met Opera Debut in ‘Butterfly’
Asmik Grigorian, a star singer abroad, made her Metropolitan Opera debut by lending lyricism, complexity and spontaneity to a classic role.
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Andrew Davis, 80, Dies; Renowned Conductor Who Championed Britain’s Music
Celebrated for his long tenure with Lyric Opera of Chicago, he led this and other orchestras with force and a notably energetic podium presence.
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Anthony Roth Costanzo, Star Countertenor, to Lead Opera Philadelphia
Costanzo will be a rare figure in classical music: an artist in his prime who is also working as an administrator.
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Review: John Adams’s ‘El Niño’ Arrives at the Met in Lush Glory
The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop.