Blogs
October 2, 2013Gail Kruvand was an assistant principal bass player in the New York City Opera for 22 years. "I took lots of auditions, all over the country, before I won this position, and for me it was like, Wow!, I really felt like I'd arrived."
She played her final show with City Opera on Saturday, a performan ... More >>
Blogs
September 30, 2013Calling all deep-pocketed arts patrons--now is your moment to swoop in and save City Opera from certain death.
With just 15 hours left to go, New York City Opera's Kickstarter campaign has raised just $285,590--about a quarter of the $1 million needed to finish out its current season.
City Opera ... More >>
Music
September 4, 2013Voice Choices
August 7, 2013Music
March 27, 2013Theater
February 20, 2013Thomas Adès's Powder Her Face at New York City Opera tells "dirty duchess" stories
Voice Choices
June 27, 2012Theater
January 18, 2012Trimmed and renamed, a great opera has shrunk to become a good show
Voice Choices
December 7, 2011Theater
October 26, 2011An overlooked 1835 opera makes modern merriment
Theater
September 14, 2011Jean-Baptiste Lully's masterpiece French-Baroques its way back to BAM
Voice Choices
March 9, 2011Voice Choices
March 2, 2011Voice Choices
February 16, 2011Renée Fleming commands the stage
Voice Choices
April 20, 2010Voice Choices
March 2, 2010Blogs
December 17, 2009Selena 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 >>
Voice Choices
November 3, 2009The opera finally gets fashionable
Voice Choices
August 25, 2009Voice Choices
July 1, 2009Opera: Classiest whilst free
Voice Choices
June 17, 2008Musicians take to the streets in all five boroughs
Film
May 27, 2008Oppenheimer chronicle, chronicled
Dance
March 11, 2008'What danger from a naked foe?' Ask Mark Morris.
Dance
May 8, 2007Dying twice is worth it in the end for Mark Morris's marvelous Orfeo ed Euridice
Theater
July 11, 2006Like its set, Grendel's big and rocky, with an empty core
NYC Life
February 28, 2006Film
September 6, 2005Screens
June 14, 2005NYC Life
April 26, 2005News
September 7, 2004Dance
May 4, 2004Theater
March 9, 2004Sondheim's demon musical thrives in a heavenly operatic showcase
NYC Life
February 24, 2004Theater
December 30, 2003Two similarly grand French operas get antithetical but equally un-grand Met stagings
NYC Life
May 13, 2003Theater
January 7, 2003While Broadway Lives the Puccinian Past, William Bolcom Gives the Met a New 'View'
NYC Life
September 3, 2002Soprano Lauren Skuce gets high marks
NYC Life
May 28, 2002NYC Life
March 5, 2002James Levine and His Met Orchestra Take Down the Stars
NYC Life
September 4, 2001Orchestral Maneuvers Hit the Mark
NYC Life
May 29, 2001Composing the Perfect Season
News
September 5, 2000Classical Music Builds to a Crescendo
Theater
June 13, 2000News
May 16, 2000'I Giuliani,' Verdi's Long-Lost Opus, Strangely Resembles the Current Scandal
Music
March 28, 2000Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films
Music
August 3, 1999Film
March 30, 1999Music
March 30, 1999The vast increase in operatic venues reopens an old unsettled question
Music
February 23, 1999Theater
January 5, 1999- More >>
