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Matthew Gurewitsch

Matthew Gurewitsch


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Nuclear Winter of the Soul

Ruth Wilson plays Ibsen’s anti-heroine in Ivo van Hove’s fire-and-ice Hedda Gabler

Smoking Gun at the Ballets Russes

Did the young George Balanchine steal from a certain senior colleague?

When the Cat’s Away …

The mice run wild in Ben Jonson’s knockabout sitcom The Alchemist

Pop Royalty

Little-known paintings by Dame Vera Lynn, “the Forces’ Sweetheart,” whose songs buoyed morale during World War II, go on display in her hometown

One Maestro, One Diva, No Elephants

Riccardo Muti and Anna Netrebko put a Salzburg Aida over the top

What Color is Your Parachute?

As Mark Rothko in the award-winning Red, Alfred Molina tackles the big questions

I Do! I Do!

Love finds a way in The Bartered Bride, starring Teresa Stratas

Born to Sing Verdi

Hawaiian star baritone Quinn Kelsey anchors the Met’s new Rigoletto

Theater Pick of the Week

From Shakespeare’s Globe, in London, an Elizabethan Twelfth Night for the ages

Opera Pick of the Week

Tesla sings! Les Éclairs at the Opéra Comique, in Paris, takes liberties with the biography of the Serbian visionary, to electric effect

Opera Pick of the Week

The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces

Opera Pick of the Week

From Adolphe Adam, composer of the tragic ballet Giselle, an operatic soap bubble starring a postman with a knockout high D

Opera Pick of the Week

Unseen at the Paris Opera since its premiere in 1936, Georges Enesco’s Œdipe returns in a heaven-sent staging by Wajdi Mouawad

Opera Pick of the Week

From San Francisco, an intriguing new take on Così fan tutte, Mozart’s politically scandalous, musically sublime comedy of deception

Opera Pick of the Week

With the recital album Baritenor, the singer-scholar Michael Spyres mines music history for sheer delight

Opera Pick of the Week

From Brussels, The Time of Our Singing, an operatic mixed-race American family saga, speaks to our historical moment with an eloquence that transcends it

Opera Pick of the Week

Love hurts in Jenůfa, Leoš Janáček’s tragedy from the hinterlands of Moravia, brought to thrilling life at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London

Opera Pick of the Week

What’s better, sex or salvation? Tannhäuser, Wagner’s schizophrenic singer of courtly love songs, simply cannot decide

Opera Pick of the Week

If you liked The Bride of Frankenstein, you’ll love Charles Gounod’s Gothic thriller La Nonne Sanglante

A Classicist at Heart

Whatever it might mean for him to “play the race card,” the tenor Russell Thomas isn’t having any

Opera Pick of the Week

From San Francisco Opera, a bold new reading of Beethoven’s soul-stirring political thriller Fidelio

Opera Pick of the Week

Double déjà vu all over again: Il Trovatore, Verdi’s warhorse in excelsis, live from Los Angeles, with dueling heroes and two modern-day knights

Opera Pick of the Week

As the Metropolitan Opera returns to live performance, an easy fix for fans hooked on the company’s once-complimentary nightly streams

Opera Pick of the Week

More Verdi from Muti’s La Scala: the Spanish tragedy Il Trovatore