The Met is approaching prepandemic levels of attendance. But its strategy of staging more modern operas to lure new audiences…
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“The Comet/Poppea” radically pares down a classic and blends it with a premiere by George E. Lewis for an original…
Italy’s government pulled out all the stops to celebrate one of Italy’s most important national art forms.
The Cleveland Orchestra’s staging of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” was a reminder that ensembles can help fill the gap as…
The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in a revival of Mark Morris’s witty, sensitively choreographed production.
Robert Ashley’s 1994 opera “Foreign Experiences,” a portrait of a paranoid mind in free fall, is part of a wave…
Costanzo will be a rare figure in classical music: an artist in his prime who is also working as an…
Fortunato Ortombina, the general director of Teatro La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, will succeed Dominique Meyer, a respected French impresario.
After making history as the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer, Terence Blanchard’s “Fire” is back — with…
At Munich’s prestigious opera house, the Russian-born Vladimir Jurowski has broadened the repertoire while rooting his work in political awareness.