CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The image projected onto the curtain as audience members file into UNC’s Memorial Hall for the staging of the opera “Omar” is so faint at first it looks like shadows made by folds in the fabric. But as the lights dim, eyes, a nose and a mouth emerge,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Günther Groissböck was about to walk onstage at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre for the first act of a new “Lohengrin” production last winter when his wife, Isabel, texted that she and their 12-year-old daughter were about to take off on a flight home to Milan. ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Terence Blanchard, the first Black composer whose work has been heard at the Metropolitan Opera, will be given a yearlong celebration at Lincoln Center starting in March. The Met, New York Philharmonic, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Film at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard...