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Music
Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling Lyric Opera of Chicago.
By Zachary Woolfe
Enrique Mazzola, a specialist in bel canto, French repertoire and early Verdi, will follow Andrew Davis’s two-decade tenure.
By Michael Cooper
“I don’t want to exclude anything,” says the Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa, who plans to present Czech music alongside mainstream repertoire in London.
By Rebecca Schmid
A new report found that women are dramatically underrepresented when it comes to conducting, directing and designing operas at leading American companies.
By Marc Tracy
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He was especially acclaimed for his performances at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. As his voice developed, he once said, so did his view of how and why to deploy it.
By Neil Genzlinger
“X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” from 1986, receives its grandest treatment yet, in a production expected to play on opera stages from coast to coast.
By Joshua Barone
Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s “Grounded,” which Washington National Opera premiered on Saturday, is headed to the Metropolitan Opera next year.
Arts
Malcolm X at the Met. Jaap van Zweden’s farewell to the New York Philharmonic. Premieres by Kate Soper and Ted Hearne. It’s shaping up to be quite a season.
By Joshua Barone and Zachary Woolfe
This death-row tale, adapted by Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally, opens the season of the Metropolitan Opera, as part of its push for newer works.
By Javier C. Hernández
Opinion
Two Los Angeles institutions have recently lost their musical directors.
By Daniel J. Wakin