Opera

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Three productions under unusual constraints show how the art form is gradually re-emerging in the pandemic. Source

Starting on July 18, 12 professionally shot recitals will be broadcast from idyllic locations around the world. The price of admission: $20. Source

In opera, death is an art — one that might light the way to a more mindful conversation about the end of life. Source

The company’s orchestra offered prestige and job security. But the pandemic has upended hundreds of lives. Source

Classical music and opera’s starriest and most important annual event will go forward, in modified form. Source

Many artists have not been paid since March at the company, which hopes to return on New Year’s Eve after its longest interruption in over a century. Source

Hard-core music, theater and movie aficionados from around the world told us how they’re coping in coronavirus lockdown. Source

Unlike the existential threat posed by the coronavirus outbreak, cultural life returned swiftly to normal after the flu. Source

With the company’s September opening in jeopardy, it will put 41 staff members on indefinite furlough and cut 11 others to part-time hours. Source

We asked Patti Smith, John Turturro, Renée Fleming and others to pick the music that moves them. Listen to their choices. Source


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