The concert world, seemingly back to normal, saw Ukrainian musicians banding together, a new “Ring” at Bayreuth, and the opening of the revamped David Geffen Hall.
Tag: Metropolitan Opera
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Costuming ‘The Hours’ at the Met: Vintage Wallpaper and ’90s Calvin Klein
While creating the costumes for a new opera adaptation of “The Hours,” a designer found inspiration in archival wallpaper, an English farmhouse and 1990s Calvin Klein.
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Joanna Simon, Opera Singer from Famously Musical Family, Dies at 85
A renowned mezzo-soprano, she grew up alongside her younger sisters, Carly and Lucy, both of whom became singer-songwriters.
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Camille A. Brown’s Latest Dance Challenge? To Have Fun.
The busy choreographer returns to the stage, maybe for the last time, in her celebrated trilogy exploring Black life.
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The Facts and Fictions of Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’
The 1934 opera, revived this season at the Metropolitan Opera, stoked the ire of the Soviet state, or so the story goes. But archives tell a more interesting tale.