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‘We Are the Lucky Ones’ Gives Operatic Voice to a Generation-OxBig News Network
Theaters are never truly dark. In between performances, a simple floor lamp is placed onstage and switched on. It’s called a ghost light, and...
Fashion? Rockets? Yachts? A Trump Ally Has Ideas for the Kennedy Center-OxBig News Network
The businessman Paolo Zampolli has counted Donald J. Trump as a friend for decades. In the 1990s, when Mr. Zampolli ran a modeling agency,...
Review: With ‘Fidelio,’ the Met Opera Does What It Does Best-OxBig News Network
The other tenor role is more herculean: Florestan, sung at the Met by David Butt Philip with ardent tirelessness matched only by his dramatic...
Review: A ‘Moby-Dick’ Opera at the Met Cuts the Blubber-OxBig News Network
The opening line of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” is one of the most famous in literature. But Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer, whose moody, monochromatic...
Why Composers Want to Write Operas for Children-OxBig News Network
A lonely schoolboy named Bertil makes a magical friend who goes by Nils in “Nils Karlsson Däumling,” a children’s opera by Thierry Tidrow based...