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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.

By Zachary Woolfe

Davidsen, Lise Opera Paris Opera Salome (Opera) Strauss, Richard

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.

By Oussama Zahr

Children and Childhood Classical Music Education (K-12) internal-truncator Italy Opera Rome (Italy) Theater

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.

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Alessandro Penso

Bell, Gelsey Foreign Experiences (Opera) Hamilton, Tom (Electronic Musician) Johnson, Mimi Lander, Bonnie Opera Pinto, Paul Roulette (Brooklyn, NY, Performance Space) Ruder, Dave

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.

By Joshua Barone