Matthew Gurewitsch
The Sky’s the Limit
From the title role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Omar, the tenor Jamez McCorkle pivots to godhood
Three Faces of Lise
The Norwegian soprano of the hour explores the heroines of Richard Strauss
His Last Duchess
Samuel Ramey and Jessye Norman mesmerize in a 1989 Met performance of Bluebeard’s Castle
Marta Has Left the Building
In Death Valley Junction, a theater like no other
Anatomy of a Hypochondriac
Red Bull Theater revives the dying Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid
The Princess and the Pie Shop
Sutton Foster bounces from the Encores! Once upon a Mattress straight to Broadway’s hit revival of Sweeney Todd
Vivaldi In His Element
Il Giustino lands at Stockholm’s Drottningholm Court Theater
Back from the Dead
The celebrated Nadia Boulanger’s La Ville Morte surfaces in Athens, then in New York
A Less Perfect Union
Flashbacks to the Buckley–Vidal smackdowns that changed our media landscape forever
The Real “Danish Girl”?
Lucia Lucas, baritone, walks the walk as the transgender trailblazer Lili Elbe
Valhalla Karaoke
Das Rheingold according to Romeo Castellucci
Silent Night, Holy Night
The John Adams Nativity oratorio El Niño, distilled
Your Grandmother’s Oklahoma!
“Better than the original!” raved Mary Rodgers, the composer’s daughter
Hojotoho!
Sprung from the archives at last, Riccardo Muti’s Die Walküre at La Scala
Write Book, Bake Cake, Buy Flowers
Acclaimed first as a novel, then as a movie, The Hours finds a niche at the Metropolitan Opera
Double Coronation
Jake Heggie opens new seasons at the Met and in Houston with Dead Man Walking, his first opera, and Intelligence, his 10th
Dinner Party From Hell
It’s time for a second look at Thomas Adès’s loopy dance of death The Exterminating Angel
Where Have You Been All My Life?
In their 80s, Riccardo Muti and Philip Glass have just started making music together
Blow, Winds, and Crack Your Cheeks! Rage! Blow!
From Stratford, Ontario, a King Lear of symphonic power
Cast to the Rescue
Salzburg’s latest crack at The Marriage of Figaro
The Barbie Girl Variations
A Spanish cellist in Sweden who moonlights on piano gives Aqua’s golden oldie a half dozen makeovers
Little Mermaid in La La Land
From Amsterdam, a fey yet bleak revival of Dvořák’s Rusalka
Dutchman in Dry Dock
Asmik Grigorian redeems Bayreuth’s non-seaworthy Der Fliegende Holländer
