Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

Operavore keeps its finger on the pulse of the international opera scene. We offer news bulletins from the around the globe, previews of new recordings, and interviews with the players and ...

Stripped of some of its excess movement, Hytner’s elegant concept speaks clearly and wittily. Here is a Handel opera seria refracted through the anarchic world of the 18 th-century pleasure garden.

In continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in ...

AFTER a silence of about five years, Massenet’s “Manon” has been revived at the Metropolitan, and the worst has happened. We hear from “Manon” fanciers that full justice was not done to Massenet’s ...

ALONG with words, new scenery, new English and other novelties in the Metropolitan’s revival of “The Magic Flute,” there also seemed to be a new audience. At least, there were many visitors who ...

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