Why do some elaborate revisions of operas and musicals draw so much fire, but not others?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:47PM[SHARE]"The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" was streamlined to make the original opera more accessible and realistic, but we're left with something slighter.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:13PM[SHARE]The mezzo-soprano Rosalind Elias made her Broadway debut at 82 in the current revival of "Follies."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:55PM[SHARE]One is based on the best-selling novel "Cold Mountain."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:58PM[SHARE]A new one-act opera, "A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck," directed by Francesca Zambello, has its premiere at the Glimmerglass Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AM[SHARE]Tyne Daly's portrayal of Maris Callas in "Master Class" vs. Callas herself on recordings of her Juilliard sessions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:01PM[SHARE]In "Annie Get Your Gun" at Glimmerglass, the soprano Deborah Voigt brings clear diction, sweetness and sassiness to the title role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:52PM[SHARE]Words or music? The one that drives the work helps define whether it's an opera or a musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:19PM[SHARE]Outdoors on a noisy Friday night on the streets of New York, a young musician happens by a painted piano and does what comes naturally: He plays it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:09PM[SHARE]Sutton Foster says she wants to be known "as an actress who sings and dances." But this is far from the way she started off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:11PM[SHARE]"Séance on a Wet Afternoon" is Stephen Schwartz's operatic version of the 1964 British film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PM[SHARE]Michael Tilson Thomas shared the roots of his musicianship and theatrical instincts in "The Thomashefskys," performed with the New York Philharmonic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:14AM[SHARE]With the opera "Anna Nicole" opening this week, Anthony Tommasini explores part of London's musical past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:14PM[SHARE]With the opera "Anna Nicole" opening this week, Anthony Tommasini explores part of London's musical past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:00PM[SHARE]Lucas has a passion for the Romantics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AM[SHARE]Things are going great for Mr. Thomas at both jobs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AM[SHARE]Michael Tilson Thomas, the founder and artistic director of the New World Symphony, just loves the Seikilos epitaph.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PM[SHARE]I had no idea that these articles, videos and blog posts would stir up such a lively, informed and passionate online conversation, with, so far, 2,637 comments from readers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:22AM[SHARE]Music lovers have long been understandably enthralled with Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and their Romantic brethren.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00AM[SHARE]The sad truth is that until relatively recent decades, women have had severely limited opportunities within all the arts, especially music and, even more, composition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:58PM[SHARE]Verdi and Wagner were great students of Beethoven, and their operas have symphonic sweep, architectonic integrity and orchestral richness galore. In addition, you cannot discount their endur…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00AM[SHARE]Though Debussy was born in 1862 and died in 1918, this path-breaker has to be considered a 20th-century giant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42AM[SHARE]The argument for Mozart as the greatest composer ever would be based on his astounding versatility.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00AM[SHARE]Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert: What made Vienna such a hotbed?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:04PM[SHARE]In videos and posts on ArtsBeat over the next two weeks Anthony Tommasini will explore the qualities that make a classical composer great, maybe even the best of all time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AM[SHARE]Yonghoon Lee wins admirers for his work in "Don Carlo."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:21PM[SHARE]Virgil Thomson, who grew up in a Baptist family and was a church organist in his youth, was never susceptible to religion, even as a child. Yet like his student Mr. Rorem, Thomson wrote many…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:05PM[SHARE]I am more sympathetic to the goals behind festivals in general and was drawn into this one, despite reservations.
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