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The ‘Gigantic, Fecal Baby’ Inside Every Populist Ruler

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🚨 LAYOFF ALERT – New York 🇺🇸

The Metropolitan Opera will lay off 22 employees in New York City as part of cost-cutting measures tied to financial shortfalls. The opera company is also reducing executive pay and postponing productions as it works to stabilize finances.

YouTube video by Explore Documentary Films Fallujah: The Opera | Explore Films

Fallujah, the opera provides a glimpse inside real hearts and minds before and after one of Iraq War’s biggest battles. From Canadian composer Tobin Stokes and award-winning Iraqi American playwright Heather Raffo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZ9...

Thanks for the review! I’m trying to find a ticket for Wed!

The NOA's new chamber opera finals last night were seriously problematic. All three operas/scenes were full of toxic masculinity and women as victims/healers of the men. Apparently the judges neither see these issues nor reject them. This is not the way forward for contemporary opera.

A Bold Alliance Ends as Innovative Opera Director Bows Out in Detroit

A Bold Alliance Ends as Innovative Opera Director Bows Out in Detroit
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Natasha, by Toshio Hosokawa, is streaming for free on OperaVision’s YouTube channel and from their website: www.operavision.eu. It is stunning. #newopera #brandnewopera #operavision

Operamania Wednesday evening at The great Hall witnessed a seminal event in the history of opera; Operamania.  Our beloved art form; courtesy of the indefatigable Opera Revue, mashed up with pro-wrestling; in…

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Opinion | The Quest for Perfection Is Stunting Our Society

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New opera version of "The Railway Children" is a #coldwar #thriller www.colinscolumn.com/glyndebourne...

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The Met Opera Turns to Saudi Arabia to Help Solve Its Financial Woes

The Met Opera Turns to Saudi Arabia to Help Solve Its Financial Woes www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...

Mr. Gelb said his support for cultural exchange with Saudi Arabia was different.

Coming this fall? Super!

Unsuk Chin’s new opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes was meant to be a must-see — so what went wrong? News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Unsuk Chin’s new opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes was meant to be a must-see — so what went wrong?

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a digital poster at the Metropolitan Opera House box office that shows Gerald Finley as Mark Antony dipping back Julia Bullock as Cleopatra. it announces ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA OPENS TONIGHT

A mirror selfie of a plus size woman with red hair wearing a dress patterned with van Gogh’s Starry Night

The Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 SEASON The Metropolitan Opera premiere of JOHN ADAMS'S ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA This performance is being broadcast live on the SiriusXM app and streamed at metopera.org. CONDUCTOR John Adams IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE CLEOPATRA Julia Bullock CHARMIAN Taylor Raven DEBUT ANTONY Gerald Finley EROS Brenton Ryan ENOBARBUS Alfred Walker* CAESAR Paul Appleby* AGRIPPA Jarrett Ott DEBUT LEPIDUS Kevin Short OCTAVIA Elizabeth DeShong SCARUS Michael Adams IRAS Eve Gigliotti Monday, May 12, 2025, 7:30-10:55PM

messenger screenshot: ozymegdias: oh my GOD this shit rips twiliteisntlit: what a way to word that, lol ozymegdias: genuinely had to stop myself from shouting that at Adams as soon as the lights came back up twiliteisntlit: you've gone full tilt opera, good lord ozymegdias: listen this was always a latent threat

[dril voice] modernist opera. I live for this

Fedora Prize 2025: Irish composer Michael Gallen wins €100,000 award for new opera The Curing Line, which is due to premiere at Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2026, has scooped one of the world’s largest opera awards

So delighted to see this. Excellent bunch of people.

Fedora Prize 2025: Irish composer Michael Gallen wins €100,000 award for new opera

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I heard Sarah this evening. Um, wow!

Detroit Opera Steps Into Trump’s Cross Hairs With ‘Central Park Five’ The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera features Donald J. Trump, whose 1989 full-page newspaper ad sought to demonize the young men wrongly accused of rape.

“The Central Park Five,” an opera about the Black and Latino boys wrongly convicted of raping a Central Park jogger, opens next month at the Detroit Opera House. We spoke with the company about the perils of mounting a production that waves a red cape at Donald Trump's reactive presidency.

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Sweat – a film by The Bicycle Opera Project | OPERA America Watch the video and learn more about SWEAT, an Artistic Creation Winner in the 2024 Awards for Digital Excellence.

“Sweat” wins the Digital Excellence in Opera award. I mean, of course it did! #newopera www.operaamerica.org/industry-res...

Here’s a brand new opera that’s 138 yrs old already:

LIBLAB - Tapestry Opera Tapestry Opera’s Composer-Librettist Laboratory (LIBLAB) is Canada’s flagship opera creation intensive. Applications now open!

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Application deadline Sunday, February 2, 2025
Program dates: July 15 – 25, 2025 in Toronto.

📷: Bruno Roy at the 2022 LIBLAB, by Dahlia Katz

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‘It’s really a very dark comedy’: Festen, the explosive opera based on the dinner-party-from-hell film The Danish film about racism, child abuse and self-harm caused jaws to drop in the 90s. Can it work as opera? Absolutely, say lyricist Lee Hall and composer Mark-Anthony Turnage

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Hi friends and new followers! I manage a list of opera companies on Bluesky - pls let me know if I miss one.