Rich and Meditative, ‘Primero Sueño’ at the Cloisters Brings Sor Juana to Life
This rich, meditative opera succeeds where other operatic treatments of Sor Juana do not.
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Prototype, the New York Festival of Avant-Garde Opera, Turns 12
There was a dizzyingly diverse spectrum of performances this year, with wildly divergent highs and lows.
Michael Mayer’s Faux-Archaeologists Can’t Rescue His Entombed ‘Aida’ at the Met
Mayer’s weak attempt to address opera’s recent struggles with its history of fetishization of “exotic” cultures adds nothing to the production.
