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. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:11PMThe N.F.L. and Fox deserve credit for thinking outside the usual pop-music box in selecting the opera singer Renée Fleming to perform the national anthem at this year's Super Bowl.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:57PMIn “Tragedy of a Friendship,” Jan Fabre creates a mash-up of Wagner operas, based on his friendship with Nietzsche.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:35PMValery Gergiev leads a two-and-a-half-hour performance at the Mariinsky II in St. Petersburg, Russia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:57AM“I Am an Opera,” by Joseph Keckler, finds that a bad hallucinogenic mushroom trip can have many side effects. One is opera.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:14PMIn “The Hunchback Variations,” at 59E59 Theaters, a noted composer and a noted hunchback come together to find a solution to Chekhov’s vague stage direction from “The Cherry Orchard.…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Catalan director Calixto Bieito has a reputation for being provocative. American audiences will get a chance to see for themselves with “Camino Real,” at the Goodman in Chicago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:55PMIs Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” an opera or a musical? A Tanglewood production made clear that the work is not a mistake to be fixed but a challenge to be met.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08AMThe New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players presented the one-act “Trial by Jury” and “G&S à la Carte” Sunday night at Symphony Space.
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