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Prototype, an Essential New York Opera Festival, Turns 10

The women behind the event, which is returning in full force after two years of pandemic disruptions, discuss its place in a difficult industry.

By Joshua Barone

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Wax Cylinders Hold Audio From a Century Ago. The Library Is Listening.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts acquired a machine that transfers recordings from the fragile format. Then a batch of cylinders from a Met Opera librarian arrived.

By Jeremy Gordon

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Review: The Met Opera Found an Audience for ‘Fedora.’ For Now.

Worries about the company’s future were momentarily stilled at a festive gala premiere on New Year’s Eve.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Bridgette Wimberly, Playwright and Librettist, Dies at 68

She had success with a play about abortion in 2001, and in 2015 wrote the libretto for the opera “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.”

By Neil Genzlinger