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Maria Callas Was Opera’s Defining Diva. She Still Is.

Callas would have turned 100 on Dec. 2. She and her flash of a career remain beacons of artistic integrity and profundity.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For

Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling Lyric Opera of Chicago.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Review: ‘Florencia’ Brings Spanish Back to the Met Opera

Starring Ailyn Pérez, Daniel Catán’s heavily perfumed “Florencia en el Amazonas,” from 1996, is the company’s first work by a Latin American composer.

By Zachary Woolfe

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An Opera’s Riverboat Journey Brings the Rainforest Onboard

Mary Zimmerman, known for a dreamy approach to theater, stages the Metropolitan Opera’s company premiere of “Florencia en el Amazonas.”

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

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