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Inequality on bank notes

Inequality on bank notes

David Patrick Stearns offers a profile of Carlos Kleiber, a complex, fascinating conductor and an often prickly character under whose guidance even the greatest of artists would surpass themselves

Rian Johnson, Patti Smith, Alex Ross and others offer favorite highlights of a composer best known for his sprawling length.

This fascinating album shows that the vocally and physically imposing Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen is not prepared to be typecast as a Wagner soprano.

Loving the Army of Thieves soundtrack? Let’s get a full tracklist so you can enjoy the songs without revisiting the Netflix movie.

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Rating: Lise Davidsen is the most talked-about young soprano around. ‘The great Wagnerian hope of her generation,’ gushed one British critic recently. Justifying all the hype is a big ask for a singer who has just passed her 34th birthday. And who has had very little experience on the stage, where, ultimately, whether she really is the next Birgit Nilsson will be tried, tested and determined. But she does nothing to harm her cause in this second Decca album, set down in London and Watford ...

Opera’s Biggest Fan Leaves Behind a Sprawling Time Capsule Pavarotti, Domingo, Sills, Fleming and many more: Perhaps 200,000 autographs are piled in a vacant East Village apartment. A signed headshot of the soprano Carol Vaness inscribed to Lois Kirschenbaum, who died last month and was the queen of the Metropolitan Opera’s stage door since the 1950s.Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times “To Lois.” For many of opera’s greatest stars since the 1950s, writing that...