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Grace Bumbry, 1st Black singer at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival, dies at 86

Grace Bumbry was part of generation of acclaimed Black opera singers that included Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, George Shirley, Reri Grist and Martina Arroyo.

Chicago Sun-Times

Don Giovanni `unredeemable' in Ivo van Hove's US opera debut

Belgian director Ivo van Hove is making his U.S. opera debut with a dark take on “Don Giovanni” at the Metropolitan Opera

The Independent UK

Met premieres Blanchard's `Champion,' an `opera in jazz'

Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” proved a sell-out hit at the Metropolitan Opera in 2021

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Met Opera marks 1st year of Ukraine war with concert

The Metropolitan Opera marked the 1st year of Russia's war on Ukraine with “A Concert of Remembrance and Hope" that included Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo wearing a skirt with a tally mark for each day of the war

The Independent UK

Met Opera scraps set from Russia, builds own for `Lohengrin'

At a cost of more than $1 million, the Metropolitan Opera has built duplicate sets for Francois Girard’s upcoming staging of “Lohengrin” instead of using the Russian set

The Independent UK

Met cuts season to 18 operas, matching fewest in 4 decades

The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in the strike-shortened 1980-81 season

The Independent UK

Met uncertain about producing Richard Jones' Ring Cycle

The Met Opera will not start a new production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle in 2025 and is not sure whether it will move ahead with plans to present a staging of the tetralogy by director Richard Jones

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A 'downtown' choreographer brings her craft to the opera

You could call choreographer Annie-B Parson a “downtown” choreographer

The Independent UK

French tenor belatedly, triumphantly makes his Met debut

Fresh off a triumphant debut, French tenor Benjamin Bernheim seems likely to become a familiar presence at the Metropolitan Opera

The Independent UK

After fine-tuning, 'The Hours' with Fleming opens at the Met

Kevin Puts’ “The Hours” has had more than a few hours of changes since it was first heard in a pair of concert performances in Philadelphia last March

The Independent UK

Ukraine orchestra's leader debuts at Met with Russian opera

It's been quite a year for conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson

The Independent UK

Met Opera to open season with dark, murderous ‘Medea’

The Metropolitan Opera opens its new season Tuesday with its first production of “Medea,” a version of the classic Greek tale of a sorceress who murders her children after her lover chooses another woman

The Independent UK

Met Opera season had no COVID cancellations but sales down

The Metropolitan Opera sold 56% of ticket dollar capacity this season as it returned from a 1 1/2-year absence

The Independent UK

Met moves Donizetti opera to decaying American town

Call it bel canto in the Rust Belt

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Fleming returns to Met in new opera based on 'The Hours'

Renee Fleming is returning to the Metropolitan Opera in a new work whose subject will be familiar to readers and cinephiles

Reason

Prof. Jonathan Turley on Blacklisting Artists for Their Political Positions

A very good post, I think, here; a brief excerpt: "It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera." Those words from the Metropolitan Opera Manager Peter Gelb makes it sound like soprano Anna Netrebko has died or lost her voice in some accident. In reality, Netrebko…

The Independent UK

Met Opera shares 2022-23 season, Netrebko not in 'Lohengrin'

Soprano Anna Netrebko added to her list of cancellations, withdrawing from a new production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” at the Metropolitan Opera that is among seven new stagings the company announced for its 2022-23 season

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