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Female Singers Shine in Royal Opera’s ‘Don Carlo’
In the monumental, hour-long opera Don Carlo, two female characters take an unprecedented journey through Verdi’s 28 operas. There are…
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Jakub Hrusa, the Royal Opera’s Next Leader, Keeps Quality in Mind
For Jakub Fursa, incoming music director of the Royal Opera House, one of the key things that define what a…
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Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America
Lenox, Massachusetts — Problem “Lessons of Love and Violence” It was not “written on the skin”. Skin, the unflinchingly savage…
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‘Country House Operas’ Offer a Glimpse of Opera’s Future
When British television host Bamber Gascoigne unexpectedly inherited 350 acres of land from his 99-year-old grandaunt in 2014, he faced…
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Opera’s Lack of Diversity Extends to Offstage, a Study Shows
Opera has long tackled the lack of racial diversity. Black, Latin and Asian singers struggle to play a major role.…
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Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities
How quickly did Leipzig-Richard Wagner, Germany, change his mind about his first successful opera, “Rienzi”? Wagner resembles the opening night…
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