The company opened its 50th season with a gleefully silly, powerfully sung production that set the 1825 comedy in an art gallery; in New York, Samoan tenor Pene Pati brought warmth and expressiveness to a recital at Park Avenue Armory. By Heidi Waleson Oct. 1, 2025 at 5:01 pm ET A scene from the opera. PHOTO: STEVEN PISANO …
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An adaptation of Michael Chabon’s novel about the creation of a comic-book hero at the outset of World War II struggled to come to life in the company’s season-opening production, directed by Bartlett Sher. By Heidi Waleson Sept. 23, 2025 at 5:22 pm ET Andrzej Filończyk and Miles Mykkanen PHOTO: EVAN ZIMMERMAN / MET OPERA Like many contemporary …
The countertenor stars and sings in Charles Ludlam’s irreverent 1983 play about the legendary diva, directed by Eric Ting at New York’s Little Island. By Heidi Waleson Sept. 15, 2025 at 5:03 pm ET Anthony Roth Costanzo in ‘Galas.’ PHOTO: NINA WESTERVELT New York The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo has a seemingly endless appetite for work and risk—just last year, …
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The upstate New York opera company’s 50th-anniversary season stretches from Puccini to a world premiere, and shines in stagings of Sondheim and Stravinsky. By Heidi Waleson Aug. 13, 2025 at 5:00 pm ET John Riddle (left) and the cast of ‘Sunday in the Park With George.’ PHOTO: BRENT DELANOY/THE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL Cooperstown, N.Y. The Glimmerglass Festival, which celebrates …
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The summer program—featuring ‘Die Walküre,’ ‘The Marriage of Figaro,’ ‘La Bohème,’ ‘Rigoletto’ and ‘The Turn of the Screw’—offers largely standard repertoire enriched with subtle surprises and compelling performances. By Heidi Waleson Aug. 4, 2025 at 4:30 pm ET Ryan Speedo Green and Tamara Wilson in ‘Die Walküre.’ PHOTO: SANTA FE OPERA/CURTIS BROWN Santa Fe, N.M. This summer’s Santa …
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The French ensemble made its New York debut with an immersive experience at the luxury department store Printemps and a concert at L’Alliance; at City Center, the local bel-canto company presented a nuanced rendition of Bellini’s ‘La Sonnambula.’ By Heidi Waleson July 30, 2025 at 4:05 pm ET A moment from ‘The Affair of the Poisons.’ PHOTO: KEVIN …
The college’s SummerScape festival stages Bedřich Smetana’s tuneful 1868 opera, which finds the title character imprisoned for murder even as he attracts the romantic interest of his victim’s sister. By Heidi Waleson July 30, 2025 at 4:11 pm ET John Matthew Myers and Cadie J. Bryan PHOTO: MARIA BARANOVA Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. This year’s opera rarity at Bard SummerScape, …
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At Lincoln Center, the American Modern Opera Company contemplates the past, present and future through strikingly different productions; at its open-air amphitheater, Little Island stages the landmark 1983 musical retelling of a Sophocles tragedy, rethinking central elements. By Heidi Waleson July 16, 2025 at 4:38 pm ET A performance of ‘Music for New Bodies’ at Lincoln …
The New York company adapts the French composer’s classic in a production that proves theatrically inventive but musically uneven. By Heidi Waleson May 21, 2025 at 5:02 pm ET John Taylor Ward and Rachel Kobernick PHOTO: ANDREW BOYLE New York Heartbeat Opera’s radical adaptations of classic titles can soar or fall flat, but one constant has always been …
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The Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony presented Damien Geter’s new opera about the landmark Supreme Court case striking down bans on interracial marriage; at the Met, John Adams’s Shakespeare adaptation is much improved from its 2022 premiere in San Francisco. By Heidi Waleson May 14, 2025 at 4:09 pm ET Flora Hawk and Jonathan Michie PHOTO: DAVE …
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