Two works at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, by two inventive partnerships in opera, use fables to explore grief and queer utopian dreams.
Category: Opera
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An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness
George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, who collaborated on modern successes including “Written on Skin,” return with the one-act “Picture a Day Like This.”
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Jakub Hrusa, the Royal Opera’s Next Leader, Keeps Quality in Mind
“I don’t want to exclude anything,” says the Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa, who plans to present Czech music alongside mainstream repertoire in London.
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Female Singers Shine in Royal Opera’s ‘Don Carlo’
In a Verdi revival at the Royal Opera, two top female singers are discovering, and rediscovering, characters from a real-life royal love triangle.
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London Tours on Opera and Classical Music Offer Looks Behind the Curtain
Fans of music from centuries past will find a wide variety of experiences and collections. One even comes with a side of rock ’n’ roll.
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A Queer Revolutionary Classic Book, Now Onstage With Music
Philip Venables and Ted Huffman’s latest work adapts a utopian, fantasy cult favorite by Larry Mitchell.
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What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant
Women in the industry are speaking out about what they feel are cancellations motivated by their appearance rather than sound, even as there is a belief that pregnancy and childbirth have positive effects on the voice.
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Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening
The Met Orchestra’s season-ending concert at Carnegie Hall featured the premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s “Heath (‘King Lear’ Sketches).”
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Anthony Braxton, Experimental Music Master, Gets His Due
Anthony Braxton’s music is difficult to program even among forward-thinking institutions. Leave it to the scrappy companies to get the work done.
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San Francisco Becomes an Opera Capital
Audiences could take in works by Strauss and Kaija Saariaho, as well as a new one by Gabriela Lena Frank about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
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Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Adriana Mater,’ After Her Death
The conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the director Peter Sellars, two Saariaho collaborators, brought “Adriana Mater” to the San Francisco Symphony.