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The composer Stewart Wallace has overhauled his 1990s score and says “the music is freer now, and more organic, and yet completely recognizable.”

Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman have adapted “Awakenings,” drawing both on source material and personal experience.

Anna Netrebko has previously been dropped by the New York Met for not condemning Putins regime.

In many countries, helpful background information and context is offered to audiences in the accompanying program – why are Australians missing out?

Robert Ainsley, a champion of new American opera, takes the reins from Francesca Zambello. He said the festival would continue to showcase work that tells “everyone’s story.”

Justin Austin’s program in the Board of Officers Room at the Armory included three cycles of Langston Hughes poems.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is coming up with a list of equities, bonds, funds and other securities in which Personal Equity and Retirement Account funds may be invested.

The British tenor Allan Clayton’s portrayal of the title role in Brett Dean’s opera is personal, emotional — and a breakthrough.

NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - The capital’s opera house is actively preparing for its tenth season. For the anniversary season, the management of Astana Opera is doing a rebranding. The rebranding will include a new logo and a new official website, and along with it, the entire corporate style of marketing products will change, including the appearance of tickets, Kazinform has learned from the Astana Opera’s press service.

Glyndebourne is staging Ethel Smyth’s pioneering, dramatic, rarely performed 1903 opera – and is making the best possible case for it