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You can imagine my surprise at encountering an almost wholly traditional staging with one teensy difference.
Marco Armiliato leads Elena Pankratova, Olga Kulchynska, SeokJong Baek, and Soloman Howard in the final weeknight broadcast of the season
Peter Sellars’s rarely radical climate epic Shall We Gather at The River brought together a superb collection of musical talent for an unfortunately incoherent night of sacred song.
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A second Parisian Salome, in crisper sound, has surfaced for the perverse pleasure of cher public
Emmanuel Villaume conducts Isabel Leonard, Emily D’Angelo, Stephanie Blythe, Laurent Naouri, and Jessica Pratt in a performance from 2022
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Doing my research for these “thoughts” ahead of a starry revival in London that opened yesterday, I came across the following review for the Opening Night of the 1962-63 Season.
Born on this day in 1931 mezzo-soprano/soprano Shirley Verrett
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