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Opera

‘Dalibor’ Review: A Gently Ravishing Score, an Awkward Plot

The director Jean-Romain Vesperini cleverly tied together the loose strands of Bedrich Smetana’s opera at Bard’s SummerScape festival.

Robert Wilson Expanded Our Sense of Theatrical Possibility

Wilson, who died this week at 83, created works of otherworldly dreaminess that were also deeply human.
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A New Era at the Berlin State Opera Begins With Strauss

Christian Thielemann’s inaugural new production as the general music director of the Berlin State Opera is the rarity “Die Schweigsame Frau.”

A New ‘Billy Budd’ Opera Premieres at the Aix Festival

An adaptation of the Benjamin Britten opera, in turn based on Melville’s classic novella, joins a lineage of beautiful enigmas.

In ‘Lash,’ Rebecca Saunders’s First Opera, Sex Flirts With Death

Rebecca Saunders has collaborated with the artist Ed Atkins to create “Lash,” a work that hovers around themes of illness and intimacy.

Review: ‘The Comet/Poppea’ Merges Opera’s Past and Present

A Monteverdi masterpiece and a new work by George Lewis are played simultaneously in an American Modern Opera Company production at Lincoln Center.