A modern re-imagining turns tragedy to farce
A co-author of Philip Glass’ Egyptian opera, opening at the Met this weekend, recalls how the monotheistic ‘heretic Pharaoh’ became the fat lady
How George Gershwin’s stipulation that his opera, currently at the Met, be performed by an all-black cast, plays in the America of then and now
Race theory, Aryan purity, and a Jewish purge in Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’
The British composer Thomas Adès, the son of Syrian-Jewish immigrants to the United Kingdom, leads an operatic adaption of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film into a biblical trap
Tablet en Español: El compositor británico Thomas Ádes, hijo de inmigrantes sirio-judíos que llegaron al Reino Unido, conduce una adaptación operística de la película surrealista de Luis Buñuel a una trampa bíblica
The strange side story of the 1905 comic operetta, which is being presented by the Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s Eve
A lifelong protest avoider tiptoes into the fray with ‘Death of Klinghoffer’
Dispatch from the scene at—and in—Lincoln Center Monday night
John Adams’s masterpiece is about an American Jew murdered by Palestinian terrorists, but the real opera is off stage
Protestors plan demonstration outside Lincoln Center in New York City
Father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl calls production a ‘moral deformity’
Controversial Met Opera production said to be sympathetic to terrorism
The Metropolitan Opera’s new Siegfried, part of its ambitious Ring cycle, exposes the greatness—and the limitations—of Wagner and his admirers
The new production of Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera is well cast but marred by poor conducting
The hidden story of Don Giovanni, Mozart’s Jewish opera
William Kentridge and the art of righting history’s wrongs
