“It’s like a fairy tale, the whole thing,” the composer Tobias Picker said the other day, standing in a Boston rehearsal studio. He was presiding over a run-through of an opera that he adapted from ...

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, in 2020, and the cultural upheavals that ensued, classical-music organizations began including more composers of color in their programs. The Philadelphia ...

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Anthony Roth Costanzo took over Opera Philadelphia when it was “three weeks away from stopping payroll.” Now, it is rebounding with a surplus. Credit...Hannah Yoon for The New York Times Supported by ...

Jess, played by mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo, sings some of the opera's opening lines while flanked by a chorus that represents her squadron and fellow pilots. (Scott Suchman/Washington National Opera ...

Has a review of Eugene Onegin—that is, a performance of Tchaikovsky’s opera, based on Pushkin’s novel-in-verse—ever begun with the Nanny? Well, this one will. She was Larissa Diadkova, at the ...