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  • Eric Owens and Angel Blue in the title roles of Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess'
    Eric Owens and Angel Blue in the title roles of Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess'
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    Porgy and Bess

    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

    byPaul Berman
  • A protestor holds a sign outside the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center on opening night of the opera, 'The Death of Klinghoffer' on October 20, 2014 in New York City. (Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
    A protestor holds a sign outside the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center on opening night of the opera, 'The Death of Klinghoffer' on October 20, 2014 in New York City. (Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
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    Was the ‘Klinghoffer’ Premiere an ‘Operatic Kristallnacht’?

    Dispatch from the scene at—and in—Lincoln Center Monday night

    byJudith Miller
  • Outside the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, New York, Oct. 20, 2014.
    Outside the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, New York, Oct. 20, 2014.
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    Klinghoffer at the Met

    John Adams’s masterpiece is about an American Jew murdered by Palestinian terrorists, but the real opera is off stage

    byPaul Berman
  • Protesters demonstrate as people arrive for the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera season at Lincoln Center on September 22, 2014 in New York City. (John Moore/Getty Images)
    Protesters demonstrate as people arrive for the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera season at Lincoln Center on September 22, 2014 in New York City. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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    Protest Against ‘Anti-Semitic’ Opera in NYC

    Controversial Met Opera production said to be sympathetic to terrorism

    byZachary Schrieber
  • Mariusz Kwiecien in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Met.(Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera)
    Mariusz Kwiecien in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Met.(Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera)
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    Understudy

    The new production of Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera is well cast but marred by poor conducting

    byDavid P. Goldman
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