Christopher Corwin picks the flowers of a baroque May in New York City with reviews of concerts starring Lauren Snouffer, Key’mon Murrah, and the Oratorio Society of New York.
Kaija Saariaho’s spectral, shattering Innocence makes its Metropolitan Opera debut.
A Strauss rarity receives a ravishing concert performance at Seattle Opera.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was, somehow, a fun night at the opera—just not one that felt specifically operatic.
Carmen Paddock looks at contemporary opera’s prestige literary turn and what it takes for operas adopted from novels to last.
Bay Area composer Mason Bates’s and librettist Mark Campbell’s contemporary opera about the life of the tech mogul Steve Jobs came home “to the place where it all began” in spectacular fashion
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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