Sunday, January 14, 2024
The offerings at this annual presentation of new opera and music theater tend to be politically charged, scrappy and stirring.
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“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
In “Tao of Glass,” Phelim McDermott, who has directed three Glass operas, turns to his personal history with the composer’s work.
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Kate Soper’s “The Romance of the Rose,” which had its long-delayed premiere at Long Beach Opera, showcases her signature quick-shifting eclecticism.
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Uncertainty about the coronavirus and the challenge of protecting audiences and artists is prompting many prominent presenters to wait till next year.
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Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now will include the one-act “Ellen West” among six works in its January season.
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“The Romance of the Rose” is a highlight of the coming season of Peak Performances at Montclair State University.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMThe Morgan Library & Museum explores a dense, underappreciated period in the artist’s career in an exhibition of sketches, dioramas and more.
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As the arts center rolls out its inaugural season, we offer our hopes not only for its future, but also for New York’s broader cultural landscape.
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Even by operatic standards, the marquee productions of this year’s festival of new music-theater are extreme in their depiction of trauma.
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Four gay men who recently attended the Broadway revival of this 50-year-old play — three seeing it for the first time — debate its significance and relevance.
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The playwright describes his reaction to Peter Eotvos’s 2004 opera, which will have its New York premiere on Saturday at the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center.
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Five years of preparation, water with electrolyte drops, green tea and vitamin B shots helped this performance artist get through a 24-hour show.
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Opera Philadelphia staged the premiere of this Missy Mazzoli work, adapted from a 1996 film about a woman whose marriage changes after an accident.
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Operatic performances of these works highlight the Glimmerglass Festival, while “Iris” serves as a kind of preview of the Bard Music Festival.
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Lincoln Center Festival. Mostly Mozart. Midsummer Night Swing. Lincoln Center Out of Doors. One critic argues that less could be more.
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Thursday, February 11, 2016
Her staging of Verdi's "La Traviata," a collaboration with the fashion designer Valentino, will open on May 24.
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Roberto Alagna, another well-loved tenor, will replace him, singing the role of des Grieux in Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" for the first time.
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This opera based on a short story by Judy Budnitz will be performed at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Jan. 9-11.
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Monday, May 25, 2015
AS the motorcade carrying the body of Leonard Bernstein passed through Brooklyn on its way to Green-Wood Cemetery 20 years ago, construction workers removed their yellow hard hats and called…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMFrom “God Bless America” to “The White Cliffs of Dover,” Kate Smith rallied generations. Stephanie Blythe, in a tribute, threatens to outdo her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn this revival of Mary Zimmerman's grayly atmospheric production, there is an empty space where Lucia ought to be.
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The program will be directed by Luis Perez, an actor and choreographer who has led the musical theater program at Roosevelt University since 2008.
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For a new production of “The Merry Widow,” to be uncorked on New Year’s Eve, the Met has turned to Ms. Stroman, the winner of five Tony Awards.
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It’s not unusual in the history of opera for a singer to gaze longingly at the wider world of performance, especially movies.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Stephen Wadsworth presents two Beaumarchais plays in Princeton, N.J., set solidly in the late 18th century but adapted to help contemporary audiences understand the times. &…
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