Matthew Gurewitsch
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
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
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
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Virtual by necessity, the Los Angeles Opera’s shadow-puppet Œdipus Rex capitalizes on artistic techniques refined during the pandemic
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On Site Opera’s The Road We Came explores Black music history in New York City with walking tours of Manhattan and Harlem
Classical Music’s Underdog
The 24-year-old violinist Randall Goosby has shot to fame on an instrument he named “LeBron”
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The Opéra de Paris comes back to life with The Satin Slipper, Marc-André Dalbavie’s epic of thwarted desire
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From Houston Grand Opera, a green-screen Hansel and Gretel with TikTok flair
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From Toronto’s Opera Atelier, a Niagara of Baroque images for Handel’s The Resurrection
Opera Pick of the Week
A new production of Aribert Reimann’s Lear premieres at the Bavarian State Opera
Opera Pick of the Week
Bulgaria’s native son Orlin Anastasov shines in the Sofia Opera’s outdoor Attila
Diva’s Welcome Back
An interview with French composer Marc-André Dalbavie, whose Le Soulier de Satin, based on the play by Paul Claudel, marks the Paris Opera’s reopening
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Anthony Davis commemorates the massacre that rocked Tulsa 100 years ago with Fire Across the Tracks, part of the Tulsa Opera’s pandemic recital program Greenwood Overcomes
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A digital reboot of the Houston Grand Opera’s Marian’s Song features a libretto by the city’s first Black poet laureate
Opera Pick of the Week
The Los Angeles Opera mounts a rare revival of Joseph Bologne’s L’Amant Anonyme with a cast from its young-artists program
Opera Pick of the Week
Daniel Catán adapts Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” for a Chicago Opera Theater Spanish-language performance
A Happy Accident
Fame didn’t come overnight for Tony-winning actor John Cullum. The film An Accidental Star traces his road from the American South to the Broadway stage
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The Zurich Opera streams a new production of Jacques Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Andreas Homoki
Opera Pick of the Week
Munich’s Bavarian State Opera streams Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, starring American mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey
Opera Pick of the Week
American soprano Julia Bullock presents a virtual recital alongside pianist Laura Poe
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Sir David McVicar’s Met Opera staging of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as Britain’s first Queen Elizabeth
