At the Met Opera, the Show Goes On After a Technical Mishap
The company put on a semi-staged version of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the last minute, after a backstage lift got jammed.
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Aribert Reimann, Masterful German Opera Composer, Is Dead at 88
His works, which were radically individual, were among the most celebrated of the late 20th and early 21st century.
How Did Wagner Want His ‘Ring’ Cycle to Sound?
With a team of researchers and dedicated musicians, the conductor Kent Nagano is taking a historically informed performance approach to Wagner’s epic.
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Review: ‘The Shell Trial’ Seeks a Guilty Party in Climate Change
Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins’s new opera, about events still in progress, finds fault and complicity in every player of a global blame game.