A winner and new ‘Champion’
To paraphrase Terence Blanchard’s Champion, what makes an opera an opera?
2 pieces since 2023 — in 2 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
To paraphrase Terence Blanchard’s Champion, what makes an opera an opera?
This Bard production, led by Leon Botstein, makes the strongest possible case musically, dramatically and visually for Smetana’s opera Dalibor.
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