Review: A ‘Moby-Dick’ Opera at the Met Cuts the Blubber
The opening line of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” is one of the most famous in literature. But Jake Heggie and Gene […]
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Edith Mathis, Radiant Swiss Soprano, Is Dead at 86
“When I try a role, if I feel it’s too heavy for me then I will never do it,” she
Otto Schenk, Opera Director and Bulwark of Tradition, Dies at 94
Otto Schenk, the prolific Austrian director whose lavishly traditional productions for the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera thrilled