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In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’

The baritone Will Liverman was singing in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” about five years ago when he watched a…

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A Penetrating Cry in the Dark at the Prototype Festival

This year’s iteration marks a joyous return to theaters for the festival, which was canceled last year.

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Prototype, an Essential New York Opera Festival, Turns 10

“There are all these unbelievable artists who are creating work that’s really hard to define,” Beth Morrison, a music theater…

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America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company

There is no house in the United States dedicated to presenting works from a prominent corner of homegrown music theater…

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Review: ‘The Magic Flute’ Directs Its Whimsy Toward the Younger Set

Julie Taymor’s version of Mozart’s opera, a fairy tale of puppets and plexiglass, achieves its finest form in the Met’s…

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A Cyberattack Shuts the Met Opera’s Box Office, but the Show Goes On

After hackers knocked out the ticket-selling system of the Met, the largest performing arts organization in the United States, the…

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An Opera Company’s Precarious Future Has Some Worried About a Ripple Effect

For a month now, politicians, newspapers and classical music stars have been arguing over the future of English National Opera.…

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Met Opera, Reeling From Cyberattack, Will Sell Tickets on New Site

The company’s computer systems have been down for more than three days. It will now use a Lincoln Center website…

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Best Classical Music Performances of 2022

The concert world, seemingly back to normal, saw Ukrainian musicians banding together, a new “Ring” at Bayreuth, and the opening…

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A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met

Carlo Rizzi, a Met Opera regular sometimes taken for granted, opened the company’s season this fall and has juggled “Medea,”…

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