opera
Tentative pacts avert Metropolitan Opera lockout scheme
August 21, 2014The tentative agreement includes mandatory cost reductions from management and an independent monitor to track budget performance.
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Metropolitan Opera unions say they are being forced to strike
July 18, 2014Deep salary cut demands, which its unions say are unjustified, and a company threat to close down are combining to force members of the 16 unions to plan to strike, if necessary.
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Thaïs: Religion versus sexuality on an epic scale
May 30, 2014Jules Massenet's Thaïs is a tale of religion and sexual repression, with baritone Plácido Domingo as Athanaël, a meddler of epic proportions, masquerading as a monk to hide his inner psychological conflicts.
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“The Death of Klinghoffer”: controversial history in opera
April 4, 2014Composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman specialize in expressing 20th century historical events in opera The rarely staged Death is the most controversial, dogged by criticism and cancellations.
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“Billy Budd”: sex, revolution and sea in jaw-dropping opera
March 4, 2014In 1888 Herman Melville began the philosophical novella Billy Budd. Perhaps one could say that composer Benjamin Britten and his librettists E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier "completed" it with their adaptation.
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