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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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Sunday, February 2, 2014

With Renée Fleming, Super Bowl XLVIII Gets an Operatic Opening by Zachary Woolfe

The 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.

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Theater Review: Jan Fabre’s ‘Tragedy of a Friendship’ at Montclair State by Zachary Woolfe

In “Tragedy of a Friendship,” Jan Fabre creates a mash-up of Wagner operas, based on his friendship with Nietzsche.

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Friday, May 3, 2013

Furs, Putin and Music and Ballet, Too, at New Mariinsky Theater Gala by Zachary Woolfe

Valery Gergiev leads a two-and-a-half-hour performance at the Mariinsky II in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Theater Review: ‘I Am an Opera,’ by Joseph Keckler by Zachary Woolfe

“I Am an Opera,” by Joseph Keckler, finds that a bad hallucinogenic mushroom trip can have many side effects. One is opera.

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Theater Review: ‘The Hunchback Variations’ at 59E59 Theaters by Zachary Woolfe

In “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.…

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Calixto Bieito Directs Williams’s ‘Camino Real’ in Chicago by Zachary Woolfe

The 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.

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Monday, August 29, 2011

A Classic That Still Vexes as It Pleases by ZACHARY WOOLFE

Is 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.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011