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Monday, July 22, 2013

Alex Ross: Ira Aldridge, the pioneering black Shakespearean. by Alex Ross

In 1896, a thirty-six-year-old opera singer named Luranah Aldridge travelled to Germany to prepare for performances of Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung,” at the Bayreuth Fest…

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Monday, April 1, 2013

Alex Ross: Shock tactics at the opera. by Alex Ross

This year, opera on the East Coast has taken a turn toward the lurid, the sordid, the subversive, and the cryptic—in short, toward theatrical values that are more commonly found on Eur…

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Alex Ross: “Parsifal,” at the Metropolitan Opera. by Alex Ross

François Girard’s new staging of Wagner’s “Parsifal,” at the Metropolitan Opera, is nearly as inexplicable as the work itself. The Knights of the Grail, dressed …

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Monday, November 26, 2012

Alex Ross: “The Tempest” and “Un Ballo in Maschera,” at the Met. by Alex Ross

The 2011-12 season at the Metropolitan Opera was among the least artistically successful in recent memory, with vast quantities of money and labor sucked into the black hole of Robert Lepage…

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Alex Ross: Can the Kennedy Center find new life? by Alex Ross

Harry Truman, an amateur pianist who often brought miniature scores with him to classical performances in Washington, D.C., once wondered aloud why the capital lacked a decent venue for conc…

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Monday, March 5, 2012

Alex Ross: The Met, City Opera, and the decline of opera in New York. by Alex Ross

Last fall, Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, raised eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic when he talked to the Times about the production history of Nico MuhlyR…

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Alex Ross: “The Enchanted Island,” at the Met. by Alex Ross

"The Enchanted Island," a lavishly zany production now playing at the Met (it will be broadcast in the company's "Live in HD" series on Jan. 21), revives the concept of the Baroque p…

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