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Dancers Christopher Figaro Jackson, Maleek Washington, and Jōvan Dansberry reflect on the director and choreographer's creative process.

The Metropolitan Opera’s revival boasts strong performances but raises difficult questions about race and American music.

What 2020 Taught Me About Deductibles Liesl Schillinger © Getty / The Atlantic A little while ago, amid the timeless blur of pandemic lockdown, a calendar ping alerted me that April 15—Tax Day—was nigh. I had completely forgotten to set up an appointment with my accountant. Emailing him in a panic, I was relieved when he responded that he had a slot left the day before Saint Patrick’s Day. He wouldn’t be meeting clients in person this year, because of COVID-19, he explained, but we could go over my 2020 expenses on Zoom. (After our one-on-one, the IRS bumped the fili...

George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess requires a cast entirely comprised of African American singers. Initially, Gershwin had difficulty obtaining financing for the opera’s premiere because he refused Broadway producers’ requests that he use white singers in blackface. Based upon DuBose Heyward’s 1925 novel Porgy, the opera takes place on Catfish Row, a waterside area in Charleston, South Carolina. And Gershwin and Heyward worked together on the opera on an island near Charleston. Heyward’s plot is replete with racial stereotypes. Yet, thanks to Gershwin, the opera provided Afric...

Verdi’s La Traviata. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti, director: Simon Stone. With Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, and Margaret Plummer. Register for free and view here. LIVE 2 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Rattle conducts Stravinsky. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920), Four Norwegian Moods, Suite No 1, and Suite No 2. View here. 2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London, Spring presents Joanna MacGregor. To celebrate International Women’s Day, pianist Joanna MacGregor curates a jour...