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Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines and J’Nai Bridges incarnate episodes from the early life of Jesus in this opera-oratorio
Ryan Speedo Green is promoted to the lead in Terence Blanchard’s powerful, bluesy show
The period production in New York offers three house debuts
Her New Year’s Eve production of ‘Carmen’ at the Met in New York will delve into questions of gender and violence
Andreas Schager sang with passion, Christian Gerhaher with elegance in the revival of a 1977 Wagner production
Daniel Catán’s piece is inspired by Gabriel García Márquez and featured an excellent Ailyn Pérez
Joyce DiDonato is lustrous in Jake Heggie’s opera, which tells of a nun-prisoner relationship
The most performed opera written in the 21st century opens the Met’s new season
In director Simon McBurney’s Met debut, Mozart’s opera receives clever twists, along with first-rate singing
The composer’s first opera comes to New York after the success of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’
The American’s new work ‘Blue’ tackles racism and police violence, part of a trend of operas engaging with contemporary life
The Norwegian soprano stuns as the aristocrat who has to give up her lover to a younger woman
After a near two-decade absence, Wagner’s opera returns with Piotr Beczała as the mysterious hero
There was a stellar soprano debut in the all-star cast for Poulenc’s drama of faith and fanaticism
The soprano sings glowingly in the title role of Giordano’s rarely performed opera
Kevin Puts’s score could do with more energy, but the drama of three women’s lives is compelling
Composer Kevin Puts discusses his new version of ‘The Hours’, starring Joyce DiDonato and Renée Fleming
Bartlett Sher brings the darkening atmosphere of interwar Germany to Verdi’s opera
The company’s first opera by a black composer offers moments of lyricism in a painful coming-of-age story
As the art form faces an existential crisis, it is important to ensure that prejudice is not given a veneer of artistic integrity
The New York opera house is pioneering pay-per-view live performances over 12 weeks with top international singers
Peter Gelb, general manager of the world’s largest opera house, talks about a still uncertain future for the Metropolitan
The ENO is adapting a gimmick to attract new audiences now the pandemic has hit
Angel Blue is a marvellously involving Bess and Eric Owens a warmly sympathetic Porgy
François Girard’s Parsifal was powerful, but his Holländer at the Metropolitan Opera is a flop
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