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Culture • December 16, 2021
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
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • December 16, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week
The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • December 3, 2021
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Unseen at the Paris Opera since its premiere in 1936, Georges Enesco’s Œdipe returns in a heaven-sent staging by Wajdi Mouawad
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • November 19, 2021
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
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • November 12, 2021
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With the recital album Baritenor, the singer-scholar Michael Spyres mines music history for sheer delight
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • November 2, 2021
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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
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • October 28, 2021
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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
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • October 14, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week
If you liked The Bride of Frankenstein, you’ll love Charles Gounod’s Gothic thriller La Nonne Sanglante
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • October 1, 2021
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
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • July 30, 2021
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
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • December 10, 2021
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From Adolphe Adam, composer of the tragic ballet Giselle, an operatic soap bubble starring a postman with a knockout high D
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • November 22, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week
Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), Alexander von Zemlinsky’s decadent exploration of the female gaze, in rival productions from the transgressive hot spots of Amsterdam and Berlin
Culture • October 21, 2021
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What’s better, sex or salvation? Tannhäuser, Wagner’s schizophrenic singer of courtly love songs, simply cannot decide
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • October 8, 2021
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From San Francisco Opera, a bold new reading of Beethoven’s soul-stirring political thriller Fidelio
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • September 24, 2021
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As the Metropolitan Opera returns to live performance, an easy fix for fans hooked on the company’s once-complimentary nightly streams
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • September 17, 2021
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More Verdi from Muti’s La Scala: the Spanish tragedy Il Trovatore
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • September 10, 2021
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From La Scala, a timeless account of Verdi’s Un Ballo In Maschera led by Riccardo Muti, his supreme living interpreter
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • September 1, 2021
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The certain something in this pandemic Don Giovanni from Prague is the unique aura of the theater in which it was filmed
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • August 27, 2021
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Yuval Sharon’s Twilight: Gods crunches Richard Wagner’s four-night “Ring” cycle into a 60-minute crawl through a parking garage
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • August 20, 2021
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Stone Age Mozarteans up in arms about Munich’s new-school Idomeneo will still surrender to the incandescent Emily D’Angelo
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • August 13, 2021
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Everest, Joby Talbot’s intimate epic, expands its already considerable reach as the world’s first (we think) graphic-novel opera
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • August 6, 2021
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From the Boston Lyric Opera, a never-before-released video of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, starring American soprano Deborah Voigt
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • July 23, 2021
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From Boston Lyric Opera in a bicoastal partnership with Long Beach Opera, the game-changing miniseries Desert In
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture • July 17, 2021
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In Lo Schiavo, Verdi’s forgotten Brazilian disciple tackles colonialism, South American style
By Matthew Gurewitsch