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Thomas Adès Takes a Step Toward the Classical Music Canon

As Adès premieres an orchestral work, “The Exterminating Angel” is receiving something rare in contemporary opera: a new production.

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Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, the Diva of ‘Diva,’ Dies at 75

A soprano who rose from South Philadelphia to the opera houses of Europe, she was memorably seen and heard in…

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In Detroit, an Opera Leader Finishes With One Last Triumph

After Yuval Sharon became the artistic director of Michigan Opera Theater in 2020, the company renamed itself the Detroit Opera…

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Review: The Met’s New ‘Carmen’ Trades Castanets for Cutoffs

Starring a magnetic Aigul Akhmetshina, Carrie Cracknell’s lethargic staging updates Bizet’s opera to present-day America.

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Mildred Miller, Stalwart of the Metropolitan Opera, Dies at 98

In her 23 years at the Met, she sang with the greatest stars of her day. She had a second…

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5 Operas You Can Stream at Home

This selection of works, available to rent and purchase, features some of today’s boldest directors and greatest vocal talents.

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Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For

Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling…

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Review: ‘Florencia’ Brings Spanish Back to the Met Opera

Starring Ailyn Pérez, Daniel Catán’s heavily perfumed “Florencia en el Amazonas,” from 1996, is the company’s first work by a…

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An Opera’s Riverboat Journey Brings the Rainforest Onboard

Mary Zimmerman, known for a dreamy approach to theater, stages the Metropolitan Opera’s company premiere of “Florencia en el Amazonas.”

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Drone Warfare Comes to Washington’s Opera Stage

Wearing combat boots and a U.S. Air Force flight suit, the mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo took her place onstage one recent…

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