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January 20, 2021 Michael Andor Brodeur THE WASHINGTON POST – A strange package arrived on our doorstep last week. Strange because it didn’t contain masks, or disinfectant wipes, or even another jar of that chili-crisp paste we keep blowing through. It was a box of opera. The Beauty That Still Remains: Diaries in Song is the latest experiment by the New York-based On Site Opera, a company that stays true to its name, even as it eschews that most foundational of operatic conventions: the stage. It’s also the latest example of the many ways opera is reinventing itself amid a pandemic that ...

Forced online, an opera festival searches for intimacy Alexi Murdoch in “Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists,” part of the Prototype Festival. The Under the Radar, Prototype and Exponential festivals are ready to open our minds with experimental work, even if their doors are shut. Pierre-Alain Giraud via The New York Times. by Zachary Woolfe (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The annual Prototype festival of new opera and music theater thrives on intimacy. Its chamber-scale offerings — often politically charged, emotionally brutal and just plain loud — vibrate the viscera. Prototype has become known for s...