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A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start.
Opera isn’t all that different from movies and TV in that it has too many streaming platforms that are just…
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An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness
In a scene from George Benjamin’s new opera “Imagine a day like this” The piece premiered at France’s Aix-en-Provence music…
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London Tours on Opera and Classical Music Offer Looks Behind the Curtain
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the red velvet curtains of the Royal Opera House? Do you enjoy…
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What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant
In 2018, six weeks after giving birth to her first child by C-section, Lueck performed “Queen of the Night” at…
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Irma Capece Minutolo, Opera Singer and Partner to Exiled King, Dies at 87
Neapolitan beauty queen and opera singer Irma Capeche Minutoro’s relationship with the exiled Egyptian king and world-famous hedonist Farouk I…
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It’s the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera
But the biggest event of the year may have been conductor Natalie Stutzmann’s debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.…
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Opera About Refugee Children to Premiere at Spoleto Festival
A chamber opera about refugee children and the trauma of mass displacement will premiere next year at Spoleto Festival USA…
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Review: Tomasz Konieczny Returns to the Met Opera in ‘Dutchman’
Four years after being hailed as the break-star of Wagner’s “Ring” revival at the Metropolitan Opera, Tomasz Konieczny made headlines…
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Salvatore Sciarrino Returns to Myth in the Opera ‘Venere e Adone’
When baritone Evan Hughes agreed to sing the role of the boar in Salvatore Sciarino’s Venere et Adone, which premiered…
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A Six-Hour Opera Goes On for One Euphoric Night Only
Many years ago, when composer Dylan Mattingly was working on a new project, he wrote to his collaborator Thomas Bertscherer…
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