Opera
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La Scala Opera Taps an Italian to Be Its Next Leader
Fortunato Ortombina, the general director of Teatro La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, will succeed Dominique Meyer, a respected French impresario.
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‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Review: A Met Milestone Returns
After making history as the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer, Terence Blanchard’s “Fire” is back — with its showstopping step dance.
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A Conductor Who Believes That No Artist Can Be Apolitical
At Munich’s prestigious opera house, the Russian-born Vladimir Jurowski has broadened the repertoire while rooting his work in political awareness.
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Newyork
Peter Eotvos, Hungarian Modernist Composer and Conductor, Dies at 80
A tireless advocate of contemporary music, he adapted literary sources both modern and classic, instilling his work with “inimitable character and pathos.”
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Aribert Reimann, Masterful German Opera Composer, Is Dead at 88
His works, which were radically individual, were among the most celebrated of the late 20th and early 21st century.
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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.
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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.
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Newyork
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, the Diva of ‘Diva,’ Dies at 75
A soprano who rose from South Philadelphia to the opera houses of Europe, she was memorably seen and heard in a 1981 film considered a paragon of cinematic style.
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In Detroit, an Opera Leader Finishes With One Last Triumph
After Yuval Sharon became the artistic director of Michigan Opera Theater in 2020, the company renamed itself the Detroit Opera — perhaps the most visible among moves that have led to a remarkable streak of successes based on a new, ambitious ...
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Review: The Met’s New ‘Carmen’ Trades Castanets for Cutoffs
Starring a magnetic Aigul Akhmetshina, Carrie Cracknell’s lethargic staging updates Bizet’s opera to present-day America.
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