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  1. opera review
    At the Met, Great Voices and Overwrought Choices in La Forza del DestinoSoprano Lise Davidsen knows what’s needed here; director Mariusz Treliński does not.
    By Justin Davidson
  2. opera review
    An Epic Set in Xenophobic Limbo: Huang Ruo’s Angel IslandFrom the walls of an immigrant detention cell to the opera stage.
    By Justin Davidson
  3. carmen
    Opera Review: A Maybe-Midwestern Carmen With No Ticket OutAn attempt at modernization that diminishes the opera’s timeliness.
    By Justin Davidson
  4. opera review
    Steam Till It Wilts: The Met’s Florencia en el Amazones“Couples converge, turn away, and re-embrace aboard a jungle Love Boat.”
    By Justin Davidson
  5. coming soon
    Pablo Larraín’s Jackie Cinematic Universe Got Angelina JolieAs a stunning, well-accessorized Maria Callas.
    By Rebecca Alter and Zoe Guy
  6. opera review
    A Magic Flute With a Few Too Many TricksSimon McBurney’s production draws power from some inventive stagecraft but gradually swamps its singers.
    By Justin Davidson
  7. opera review
    In Don Giovanni, Ivo van Hove Can Turn Even Mozart DissonantThe director seems to be fighting his musicians and singers.
    By Justin Davidson
  8. opera review
    In Terence Blanchard’s Opera Champion, Not Every Punch LandsA boxing opera comes to the Met, with a jazz-infused score, powerful movement, and wobbly storytelling.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. opera review
    A Lohengrin Where You Might Root for the Bad GuyThe Wagner opera returns to the Met for the first time in 17 years.
    By Justin Davidson
  10. and all that jazz
    Lincoln Center Is Going All In on Terence BlanchardSee Me As I Am will include an opera premiere this April and culminate in a spring 2024 performance series.
    By Justin Curto
  11. opera review
    The Met’s New Fedora Is Almost Luxe, Almost Enough“David McVicar’s new production for the Metropolitan Opera gets partway to the right degree of too much.”
    By Justin Davidson
  12. opera review
    The Hours Comes to Roiling Vocal LifeMichael Cunningham’s novel comes to the Metropolitan Opera’s stage.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. fall preview
    42 New Classical Music Performances to Hear This FallIncluding the grand reopening of David Geffen Hall, Medea at the Met, and work by Tyshawn Sorey.
    By Justin Davidson
  14. rip
    Paul Sorvino, GoodFellas and Dick Tracy Actor, Dead at 83Known for acting as a mob boss in GoodFellas, Sorvino also loved his family, poetry, and opera.
    By Jason P. Frank
  15. opera review
    Brett Dean’s Hamlet Is Too Mad for Its Own GoodYet there is method in ’t.
    By Justin Davidson
  16. opera review
    A Lucia di Lammermoor With Rust Belt BloodshedGirl of the golden Midwest?
    By Justin Davidson
  17. classical review
    Finding Solace and Defiance at the Met’s A Concert for UkraineThis week, emotions ran high at New York performances by the Met Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonic.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. opera review
    Don Carlos, a Dark Opera for Glum Times, Brings Plenty of Musical BrillianceDon Carlos’s five hours is well suited for the world at this moment.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. classical music
    Met Opera to Stop Working With Pro-Putin ArtistsAnna Netrebko will not perform for the next two seasons.
    By Justin Curto
  20. opera review
    Quinn Kelsey Makes the Met’s Rigoletto Worth Masking Up ForDirector Bartlett Sher has relocated the action to Weimar Germany, and he quickly gets past the black-leather clichés.
    By Justin Davidson
  21. opera review
    The Met Comes Alight Again With Fire Shut Up in My Bones“For all its newsworthiness, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is an old-fashioned opera opera.”
    By Justin Davidson
  22. opera review
    Review: In Sun & Sea, Econihilism Goes to the BeachIt’s all fun and games till someone loses a climate.
    By Helen Shaw
  23. opera
    Singing Their Angst From Their Beach TowelsAt BAM, the cast of the voyeuristic beach opera Sun & Sea performs from an indoor, sand-covered stage.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. making moves
    Lincoln Center Appoints Shanta Thake to Lead Its RevivalShe comes to the institution after over a decade at the Public, and her eclecticism may challenge some of its traditions.
    By Justin Davidson
  25. classical music
    Did the Tulsa Opera Dismiss a Black Composer Over One Line?He says the incident was “the height of racist and discriminatory practice.”
    By Justin Curto
  26. covid-19
    The Metropolitan Opera Won’t Return Until Fall 2021The organization canceled the remainder of its 2020–2021 season.
    By Jackson McHenry
  27. opera review
    Lise Davidsen’s Recital Provides the Hit of Joy Every Operagoer Is MissingA little of what fans are craving.
    By Justin Davidson
  28. opera
    Barcelona Opera Branches Out With Audience of House PlantsThe Gran Teatre del Liceu isn’t letting the grass grow under their feet, or their cellos.
    By Halle Kiefer
  29. performing arts
    The Precarious Future of High Culture in New YorkThe pandemic silenced the city’s symphony halls and grand opera houses. But will the (eventual) restart bring with it a reckoning?
    By Justin Davidson
  30. the coronavirus
    The Metropolitan Opera Cancels All Remaining 2020 PerformancesThe company remains hopeful that a New Year’s Eve show can occur.
    By Devon Ivie
  31. thinking about the future
    What Socially Distanced Live Performance Might Look LikeTo institutions and artists and audiences alike.
    By Justin Davidson
  32. concerts
    Stream Andrea Bocelli’s ‘Music for Hope’ Concert From an Empty Duomo di MilanoThe opera singer and his organist performed Sunday in the audience-less cathedral.
    By Halle Kiefer
  33. streaming opera
    Streaming Now: The Metropolitan Opera’s Tristan und IsoldeA 2016 production with familiar tropes.
    By Justin Davidson
  34. opera review
    Streaming Tonight: A Tale of Two Tones in the Met’s La TraviataMichael Mayer’s production makes the sparkly life so unsexy and over-sugared, the last act’s bleakness comes off as refreshingly spare.
    By Justin Davidson
  35. opera
    The Metropolitan Opera Is Furloughing Its Orchestra, Chorus, and TradesThey’ll retain health and instrument insurance, but not their salaries.
    By Sarah Jones and Justin Davidson
  36. vulture recommends
    The Best Operas You Should Stream While They’re FreeA week at the virtual Met Opera is a week without duds or off nights.
    By Justin Davidson
  37. the show must go on
    The Metropolitan Opera Will Stream Operas for Free in Wake of CoronavirusCarmen, La Bohème, and La Traviata are all slated for next week.
    By Chris Murphy
  38. coronavirus
    Arts Organizations Are Heading Into Crisis. A Few Things Might Mitigate It.Performers and staff, already living close to the edge, have little margin for a long layoff.
    By Justin Davidson
  39. opera review
    Opera Review: Great Voices and Coked-Up Staging in the Met’s AgrippinaJoyce DiDonato leads a cast that’s directed at a frantic pace.
    By Justin Davidson
  40. opera review
    Review: A Grungy, Glorious New Wozzeck at the MetWilliam Kentridge’s new production makes its debut.
    By Justin Davidson
  41. best of 2019
    The Best Classical-Music Performances of 2019A rough year for institutions, a great year for their music.
    By Justin Davidson
  42. opera review
    Gleaming and Self-Aware, Philip Glass’s Akhnaten Is Borne to the MetGilt is everywhere.
    By Justin Davidson
  43. #metoo
    Plácido Domingo Played Charming Rogues Onstage and a Monstrous One in PrivateOnstage at the Met, he was a persuasive bad guy. We were seeing more than we knew.
    By Justin Davidson
  44. #metoo
    Plácido Domingo Exits Met Opera Amid Sexual-Harassment AccusationsMultiple women claim he pressured them into sex for career advancement, and would punish them if rebuffed.
    By Devon Ivie
  45. opera review
    A Gorgeous Porgy and Bess, Its Flaws Intact, at the Metropolitan OperaAll those musical superpowers on the Met’s stage make Porgy as easy to love as it is hard to swallow.
    By Justin Davidson
  46. fall preview 2019
    Anthony Roth Costanzo Is the Pharaoh We NeedThe countertenor brings the sexually ambiguous monarch of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten to the Met.
    By Justin Davidson
  47. crime
    Opera Legend Plácido Domingo Accused of Sexual HarassmentThe incidents allegedly took place over the course of 30 years.
    By Zoe Haylock
  48. opera
    Why You Should Battle Your Way in to See This GötterdämmerungThe slats are silly, but the soloists are not.
    By Justin Davidson
  49. opera review
    Opera Review: On the Lightness of Nico Muhly’s Marnie“This deluxe production of a lavish opera rests on such a wispy score.”
    By Justin Davidson
  50. opera review
    High Notes on the High Line: The Mile-Long OperaVernacular voices strung like Christmas lights along an elevated park.
    By Justin Davidson
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