Opera

Spring Arts Guide Picks: Music

Bed-Bouncing Opera

Thomas Adès's Powder Her Face at New York City Opera tells "dirty duchess" stories

The Merry Widow

Drag Opera Diva Should Be On Broadway

We already have color blind casting on Broadway. Well, how about gender-blind casting? Over at the gay club xl on Tuesdays, Gary Hall--who normally is the drag star Shequida--plays Jessye Normous, a gigantic opera singer who needs to eat every 15 minutes and who bitches that "This is Hell's Kitche ... More >>

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Broadway, You Is My Venue Now

Trimmed and renamed, a great opera has shrunk to become a good show

Little Lord's Babes in Toyland

Figaro Refurbished

An overlooked 1835 opera makes modern merriment

Atys: He'll Take the Nymph

Jean-Baptiste Lully's masterpiece French-Baroques its way back to BAM

One Hour With You

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

POWERHOUSE

Renée Fleming commands the stage

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

Bluebeard

A Cocktail Contest for The Tales of Hoffman Gives the Metropolitan Opera a Little Extra Punch

Selena RicksPerhaps they served metropolitans too...​ Last night, the Metropolitan Opera treated its Young Associates--a group of young donors--to an experience not usually paired with a night of arias: a cocktail competition inspired by the current production, Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hof ... More >>

STRINGING COUTURE

The opera finally gets fashionable

Eric Michael Gillett

ALFRESCO ARIAS

Opera: Classiest whilst free

La Didone, Wooster's Irreverent Tribute to Classical Form

The Sounds of Summer

Musicians take to the streets in all five boroughs

Wonders Are Many: Atomic Doc

Oppenheimer chronicle, chronicled

The H. Purcell Show: King Arthur

'What danger from a naked foe?' Ask Mark Morris.

One Round Trip to Hades, Please

Dying twice is worth it in the end for Mark Morris's marvelous Orfeo ed Euridice

Monstrously Uncentered

Like its set, Grendel's big and rocky, with an empty core

Tweaking Their Legacies: Composers Reinvent Themselves

'Finding Eléazar'

Evoking a Particular Bohemia

Classical

Julie Taymor Blows a Breath of Fresh Air Into The Magic Flute

Opera in the Air in a DUMBO Basement

Fleet Street Blues

Sondheim's demon musical thrives in a heavenly operatic showcase

A piano-playing lion from Lyon, France, is set wild this season

Paris When It Fizzles

Two similarly grand French operas get antithetical but equally un-grand Met stagings

A-M-O-R Spells Mozart

Mark Lamos's Witty, Light-Handed 'Mostly Mozart' Show

Classical/Opera

What's Opera Now, Doc?

While Broadway Lives the Puccinian Past, William Bolcom Gives the Met a New 'View'

Head of the Class

Soprano Lauren Skuce gets high marks

Classical/Opera

Clash of the Titans

James Levine and His Met Orchestra Take Down the Stars

Class Act

Orchestral Maneuvers Hit the Mark

Classical

Composing the Perfect Season

Season Prelude

Classical Music Builds to a Crescendo

About This Whale . . .

Opera à la Rudy

'I Giuliani,' Verdi's Long-Lost Opus, Strangely Resembles the Current Scandal

Opera by the Book

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

New Turf

'Jeanette MacDonald— Hollywood Diva'

The Great American Opera

The vast increase in operatic venues reopens an old unsettled question

The Uneasy Dance

A Purge of the Beijing Opera in Chay Yew's Red

Mo' Better Moses

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