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Broadcast: Dialogues des Carmélites Broadcast: Dialogues des Carmélites

The season premiere of the meditative Poulenc opera begins tonight at 7:25 pm.

By on May 03, 2019 at 3:00 PM
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Entrepreneur Entrepreneur

Born on this day in 1844 impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte.

By on May 03, 2019 at 8:33 AM
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Sunday will never be the same Sunday will never be the same

“Trove Thursday” presents two live versions of Sunday in the Park with George.

By on May 02, 2019 at 10:00 AM
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Sweet comic valentine Sweet comic valentine

Born on this day in 1897 Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart.

By on May 02, 2019 at 8:00 AM
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Damned if you do Damned if you do

Our Own “Einspringer” JJ‘s sad duty of reviewing the Met’s spring revival of La traviata garnered the site’s most pageviews in the month of April.

By on May 01, 2019 at 4:12 PM
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The Goddess The Goddess

On this day on 1990 mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig celebrated her 30th anniversary Metropolitan Opera performance as Fricka.

By on May 01, 2019 at 3:13 PM
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Into the wooed Into the wooed

We are the elusive, the mysterious, the ever-courted Millennial Audience, Mr. Darcy to the marketing department’s Mrs. Bennet.

By on April 30, 2019 at 9:51 AM
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Quels enfants! Quels enfants!

On this day in 1902 Debussy’s Pelléas et Melisande premiered in Paris.

By on April 30, 2019 at 9:23 AM
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Fire and ice Fire and ice

“Say it: liquid eyeliner!”

By on April 29, 2019 at 6:05 PM
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The end is the beginning of the end The end is the beginning of the end

At the Metropolitan Opera’s Götterdämmerung on Saturday afternoon, the fires which consumed the Gods burned lukewarm.

By on April 29, 2019 at 9:40 AM
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Conductivity Conductivity

Happy 83rd birthday maestro Zubin Mehta. 

By on April 29, 2019 at 9:15 AM
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All she has to do is dream All she has to do is dream

In the most hectic and sometimes marvelous year of theater I’ve had in memory, Lady in the Dark at MasterVoices this weekend thrilled me most.

By on April 28, 2019 at 4:14 PM
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Pigment of the imagination Pigment of the imagination

It’s a wonderful idea to cast Bohème with young singers, and these delivered astonishingly assured, confident, mature performances.

By on April 28, 2019 at 12:17 PM
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“The richest food that money can buy” “The richest food that money can buy”

All about the life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, but depicted as an opera performed as a dress rehearsal for an opera.

By on April 28, 2019 at 11:43 AM
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