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Musical Storytelling: Librettist Gene Scheer On Transforming Novels Into Operas
Viviana Freyer Shares a Look Inside Two Current and Upcoming Literary Adaptations For the Stage
By
Viviana Freyer
| March 17, 2025
How Chinese and Italian Opera Helped Her Write and Grieve
Liu Hong on Navigating Tragedy in Art and Life
By
Liu Hong
| September 23, 2024
How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story
Rosalyn Story on Discovering Jones' Personal Scrapbook
By
Rosalyn Story
| May 2, 2022
“I Trust Nothing But Music.” Valzhyna Mort on the Patient Listening of Writing Poetry
The Author of
Music for the Dead and Resurrected
in Conversation with Michael Prior
By
Michael Prior
| April 13, 2022
On Opera’s Indisputable Rules of Gravity
Matthew Aucoin Considers the Constraints and Liberation of an Art Form
By
Matthew Aucoin
| December 9, 2021
How Opera Invented the Modern Fan
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By
Alison Kinney
| October 14, 2021
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By
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What Belongs to You
is becoming an opera.
By
Walker Caplan
| July 26, 2021
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By
Paul Morley
| November 11, 2020
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From the
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By
The Quarantine Tapes
| September 15, 2020
The Newly Resonant Lessons of an Unlikely Broadway Musical
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Cry, the Beloved Country
By
Anthony Rudel
| July 27, 2020
Freddie Mercury Was a Total Opera Fanboy
Late in His Life, He Teamed Up with One of Opera's Biggest Stars
By
Alfonso Casas
| June 4, 2020
The Time Giuseppe Verdi Battled *Actual* Censorship
On Italian Radicals Who Fought For Freedom
By
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
| April 3, 2020
How Wagner Tried to Revolutionize Art and End Capitalism
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By
Simon Callow
| February 7, 2018
Temple of the Scapegoat
Alexander Kluge, Trans. by Isabel Cole, Donna Stonecipher, and Martin Chalmers
By
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| January 23, 2018
In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace
Finding Political Inspiration in the Unlikeliest of Places: The Opera
By
Veronica Esposito
| January 22, 2018
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by
Donna Freitas
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by
Jenna Satterthwaite
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by
Christina Henry
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