A gift from a board member recently paid for the company to rebuild sets for Franco Zeffirelli’s deathless 1981 production of Puccini’s classic.
Category: Opera
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Review: A ‘Rodelinda’ Brings Promise of Handel on the Hudson
R.B. Schlather’s new staging of this opera, with the excellent musicians of Ruckus, is the first of several Handel productions at Hudson Hall.
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Drone Warfare Comes to Washington Opera Stage in ‘Grounded’
“Grounded,” by Jeanine Tesori and George Brant, is premiering at Washington National Opera after attracting criticism over sponsorship.
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After Nearly Five Decades, Waltraud Meier Takes Her Final Opera Bow
The famed singer, known for her captivating presence, intellectual approach and distinctive sound, is retiring from the stage with “Elektra.”
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Gender Imbalance in Opera: Where Are the Female Conductors?
A new report found that women are dramatically underrepresented when it comes to conducting, directing and designing operas at leading American companies.
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In an Opera About Civil War Spies, Dancers Help Drive the Drama
Houston Grand Opera, known for innovation, unveils Jake Heggie’s “Intelligence,” directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and featuring Urban Bush Women.
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Review: Kate Soper’s ‘The Hunt’ Makes the Medieval Modern
Kate Soper’s latest stage work freely moves between legend and anachronism for a story about three virgins taking charge of their bodies.
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North Carolina Radio Station Won’t Ban Met Opera Broadcasts After All
The station, which had called the Met’s newer operas unsuitable because of their “difficult music” and “adult themes and harsh language,” reversed course.
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Kate Soper Returns to Opera With a Story Medieval and Modern
“The Hunt,” set to premiere this month in New York, mines ancient lore about unicorns, but asks questions of today. Who has power, and who has rights?
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James Jorden, Parterre Box Opera Blog Creator, Dies at 69
With Parterre Box, he brought together high culture, punk aesthetics and gleeful camp in an irreverent source for news, criticism and gossip.
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The Met’s ‘Dead Man Walking’ Goes to Sing Sing
Metropolitan Opera stars joined prisoners for a one-night-only performance of “Dead Man Walking.”
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Nancy Van de Vate, Composer and Advocate for Women in Music, Dies at 92
An American who settled in Vienna, she had a prolific career in contemporary classical music and broke gender barriers in her field.