Tag: Opera

Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees.

Opera, once divvied into local companies of singers mostly from the same country, blossomed with the advent of…

Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met

Puts has gotten from Glass’s Minimalism a taste for using repeated figurations as a kind of sonic carpeting,…

Metropolitan Opera’s Concert Honors Ukraine

Vladyslav Buialskyi stood center stage at the Metropolitan Opera, his hand on his heart, and sang the national…

Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably.

In Canada, an acclaimed 20-year-old Russian pianist’s concert was canceled amid concerns about his silence on the invasion…

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Wagner

In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to make our friends fall…

Review: Beethoven Returns for the Age of Black Lives Matter

Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” is hardly a fixed text. He wrote several possible overtures for it and reworked…