Operavore
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Can Festivals Help Opera Companies Stay Fresh?
Opera Philadelphia on Tuesday announced what it calls a 12-day urban opera festival. But it's not the first company to shake up its season routine, as Fred Plotkin writes. Oct 21, 2015
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Sneak Peek at Upcoming Opera About Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
The battle between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs over the future of New York City will soon be the subject of an opera. Oct 19, 2015
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Giotto as an Operatic Inspiration
"What Bach is to music, Giotto is to Renaissance art and all that followed," writes Fred Plotkin in this appreciation of his dramatic paintings. Oct 16, 2015
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Review: Eric Owens Opens Philharmonic Residency with Uneven 'Footsteps'
The genial, celebrated bass-baritone Eric Owens opened a year-long Philharmonic residency with "Great African American Singers and Their Legacy." Oct 15, 2015
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Placido Domingo to Miss Four Met Opera Performances to Have Surgery
Placido Domingo will miss four performances conducting Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in order to have gallbladder surgery. Oct 14, 2015
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I Went to a Wedding and an Opera Broke Out
You can go to quite a few operas in which a wedding takes place but last week, Fred Plotkin had a new experience. Oct 13, 2015
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Learning Italian at the Metropolitan Opera
Fred Plotkin looks at how you can study Italian by attending the opera. There are no fewer than 19 such opportunities at the Met this season. Oct 7, 2015
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Magical Thinking Stalks New York's Opera World
Gotham Chamber Opera's assertion that it didn't know it had a major deficit exemplifies the magical thinking that permeates opera management, writes David Patrick Stearns. Oct 5, 2015
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James Levine Withdraws from 'Lulu,' Citing Schedule Demands
Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine said Friday that he is withdrawing from the company's upcoming production of Berg's Lulu. Oct 2, 2015
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In Praise of Healthy Voices
Healthy voices are a boon to opera fans, writes Fred Plotkin. He cites three star sopranos who are singing roles that Met audiences have not heard them in. Oct 2, 2015