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Am I the only one who likes Siegfried best? Got a thing for that bird.

Opera Review ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Review: A Visit to Dystopia Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of Poul Ruders’s operatic adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel gives the audience an up-close view of a horrifying near-future. Caroline Worra as Aunt Lydia (center) in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Photo: Liza Voll By Heidi Waleson May 7, 2019 2:46 p.m. ET …

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The Valkyrie. The @heldenmommy. Rhinegold was straight up the middle.

begins. Third time’s the charm? #themetring @heldenmommy

Boston Lyric Opera

The Venetian music we didn’t hear in Venice.

at the Frick

The end of the all Isabel season at the Met.

Heartbeat Opera and Opera Lafayette.

An opera about Mozart’s collaborator Lorenzo Da Ponte dulls down that librettist’s picaresque story. Thomas Hampson as Lorenzo Da Ponte in ‘The Phoenix’ Photo: Lynn Lane By Heidi Waleson April 30, 2019 3:32 p.m. ET Houston Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte were a perfect partnership, creating “Le nozze di Figaro,” “Don Giovanni” and …

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