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American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages

Young music theater makers are benefiting from the continent’s huge operatic resources while developing their own distinctive voices.

By A.J. Goldmann

His opera sat unproduced for decades. Then a piece of it garnered one of the field’s top prizes. Then it sat some more.

By Neil Genzlinger

Piotr Beczala, known as a charismatic singer of Italian operas, is challenging notions of what a Wagner voice should sound like.

By Javier C. Hernandez

Michael Volle puts his noble voice to delightfully undignified use as the title character in Robert Carsen’s still fresh production of “Falstaff.”

By Oussama Zahr