opera
Supreme Court justices Scalia and Ginsburg on trial in new opera
November 22, 2023“Could we please make it a constitutional requirement that no one can be sworn into office in the White House or Congress without having first seen Scalia/Ginsburg?”
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‘Girondines’ tells of the reformist women opposing the French Revolution’s Jacobins
November 2, 2023Composer Sarah Van Sciver and Librettist Kirsten C. Kunkle have come to town for a two-day, four-performance outing of their opera Girondines.
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The Met stages Terence Blanchard’s opera ‘Champion’ about boxer Emile Griffith
April 6, 2023New York City’s Metropolitan Opera, housed at Lincoln Center, ranks among the highest and most sophisticated expressions of artistic culture in the United States. The company shares a global renown with the leading opera houses of...
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‘The Last Sorcerer,’ 1867 opera by Pauline Garcia Viardot, receives world premiere
March 9, 2023It was billed as a “World Premiere 155 years in the making.”
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‘Hercules on the Thermodon’: Antonio Vivaldi’s baroque battle of the sexes
January 12, 2023Perhaps the opera is meant to disarm the most polarized tendencies between men and women in a highly stratified society that gave women little power.
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