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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.

By Joshua Barone

Content Type: Personal Profile La Rondine (Opera) Madama Butterfly (Opera) Metropolitan Opera Opera Puccini, Giacomo Tetelman, Jonathan

The American Tenor Jonathan Tetelman, a Puccini Specialist, Arrives at the Met

Jonathan Tetelman will sing in “La Rondine” and “Madama Butterfly” in New York. He trained as a baritone and worked as a D.J. before finding his “authentic voice” as a tenor.

By A.J. Goldmann

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Bieito, Calixto Classical Music Opera Paris Opera Rattle, Simon The Exterminating Angel (Opera)

Thomas Adès Takes a Step Toward the Classical Music Canon

As Adès premieres an orchestral work, “The Exterminating Angel” is receiving something rare in contemporary opera: a new production.

By Joshua Barone

Conlon, James Content Type: Personal Profile Domingo, Placido Koelsch, Christopher Los Angeles (Calif) Los Angeles Opera Opera

James Conlon to Step Down as Music Director of Los Angeles Opera

James Conlon, who has conducted more performances with the company than anyone else, will step down from his post in 2026.

By Robin Pogrebin