Benjamin Britten’s first brilliant opera, Peter Grimes, rests on ambiguity about the nature of abusive behavior, the source of compassion,…
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Over the past 16 years, Metropolitan Opera has built a profitable business by broadcasting operas live to cinemas around the…
The first appearance of the title character in Luigi Cherubini’s opera Medea is prolonged until it can hardly be endured…
Lenox, Massachusetts — Problem “Lessons of Love and Violence” It was not “written on the skin”.Skin, the unflinchingly savage second…
But he didn’t want to start directing too early. So, despite some internship experience, he learned art history. He wrote…
When British television host Bamber Gascoigne unexpectedly inherited 350 acres of land from his 99-year-old grandaunt in 2014, he faced…
How quickly did Leipzig-Richard Wagner, Germany, change his mind about his first successful opera, “Rienzi”?Wagner resembles the opening night of…
Opera has long tackled the lack of racial diversity. Black, Latin and Asian singers struggle to play a major role.…
