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Opera Pick of the Week

From the Boston Lyric Opera, a never-before-released video of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, starring American soprano Deborah Voigt

The Glass Menagerie

From Czech sea creatures to Venetian vessels to contemporary sculptures, exhibitions across the world take glass art in delightfully different directions

Splendors in the Grass

A Woman Apart

Opera Pick of the Week

Streaming one night only, a new production of Tristan und Isolde from Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper with dream cast Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros

The Kids Were Alright

A new documentary explores the gritty intersection of skateboarding and hip-hop in 90s New York

The Power of the Pen

Fancy Footwork

Opera Pick of the Week

From Boston Lyric Opera in a bicoastal partnership with Long Beach Opera, the game-changing miniseries Desert In

Opera Pick of the Week

In Lo Schiavo, Verdi’s forgotten Brazilian disciple tackles colonialism, South American style

Fresh Off the Boat

The Good, the Bach, and the Ugly

Playwright Nina Raine unpicks the difficult personality of the 18th-century composer

Living Things

Cinderella’s New Groove

Oscar-winning writer Emerald Fennell brings her distinctive voice to the beloved fairy-tale princess

He Screams, She Screams

Marie Antoinette’s Spirit Animals

Lisa Lloyd

The British artist making intricate birds, butterflies, and flowers out of just two materials: paper and card

Opera Pick of the Week

From the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Opéra de Lille, Debussy’s enigmatic Pelléas et Mélisande in a yin-yang pair of new productions

Opera Pick of the Week

Virtual by necessity, the Los Angeles Opera’s shadow-puppet Œdipus Rex capitalizes on artistic techniques refined during the pandemic

Holes in the Wall

George Clinton, Alfresco

The funk musician and his Parliament-Funkadelic collective, including some of his grandkids, open New York City’s summer concert season

Van Gogh by Way of Gehry

Opera Pick of the Week

On Site Opera’s The Road We Came explores Black music history in New York City with walking tours of Manhattan and Harlem

Modern Look

A major show at the Met displays the work of the “New Women” who embraced photography in the first half of the 20th century