Otto Schenk, director known for traditional productions, dies at 94
Otto Schenk, an actor who became a noted director praised for traditional opera productions and criticized by advocates of ...
Otto Schenk, Opera Director and Bulwark of Tradition, Dies at 94
A prominent practitioner of the historically grand productions that were once fashionable at the Met, he was especially well ...
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Michael Mayer’s Faux-Archaeologists Can’t Rescue His Entombed ‘Aida’ at the Met
Mayer’s weak attempt to address opera’s recent struggles with its history of fetishization of “exotic” cultures adds nothing ...
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Q & A: American Opera Initiative’s Kelley Rourke on the Essence of Contemporary Opera & Bringing AOI to NYC
At the helm of the organization is Kelley Rourke, a librettist who has been commissioned and performed by such organization ...
Syracuse Opera files for bankruptcy, owes over $340K in debts
The Syracuse Opera filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in mid-December, cementing the end of its 50-year run as the city’s opera ...
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Soprano Angel Blue headlines Metropolitan Opera's new production of ‘Aida’
If she has the voice of an angel, and the face of an angel, she must be an Angel.
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Kutasi’s Amneris provides the highlights in Met’s uneven, archaeological “Aida”
For 36 years, Sonja Frisell’s mounting of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, with its monumental Pharaonic sets by Gianni ...
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Metropolitan Opera Unveils Cast Change for AIDA January Performances
Tenor SeokJong Baek will sing the role of Radamès in upcoming performances Verdi’s Aida, at the Met Opera replacing Piotr Beczała, who has withdrawn due to illness. Learn more!