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Justin Torres Finds Inspiration in the Erasures of Queer History
His second book, “Blackouts,” a finalist for the National Book Award, shifts between fact and fiction to tell an intergenerational story.
The Soprano Ailyn Pérez Doesn’t Feel Like a Beginner Anymore
Long a rising star, she is getting a new Metropolitan Opera production built around her, and it’s the house’s first Spanish-language show.
San Francisco Becomes an Opera Capital
Audiences could take in works by Strauss and Kaija Saariaho, as well as a new one by Gabriela Lena Frank about Frida Kahlo and Diego...
Kaija Saariaho, Pathbreaking Finnish Composer, Is Dead at 70
She brought new textures to modernist music, sometimes using electronics, and became the first female composer to have two operas staged by the Met.
Review: Philip Glass and the Meaning of Life
The director Phelim McDermott, who has acted like a visual translator of Glass’s music, pays tribute to the composer in their show “Tao of Glass.”
Gustavo Dudamel’s 10 Notable Recordings
Dudamel, the New York Philharmonic’s next music director, has a varied catalog of classics and contemporary works, as well as film scores.
In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’
Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s “The Factotum,” at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is a gloss on “The Barber of Seville” set in a South...
Prototype, an Essential New York Opera Festival, Turns 10
The women behind the event, which is returning in full force after two years of pandemic disruptions, discuss its place in a difficult industry.
Yo-Yo Ma Is Finding His Way Back to Nature Through Music
This superstar cellist’s latest project, which has taken him to America’s national parks, aims to newly understand our place in the world.
In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself
This composer, diarist and reluctant pioneer of gay liberation has died. A critic remembers visiting him in his twilight.
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