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Metamorphosis

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Patricia Racette now combines her singing career with her work as artistic director of young-artist programs at OTSL.
By F. Paul Driscoll
Portrait by Peter Ogilvie

Electric Energy

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Damien sneed conducts The Ordering of Moses at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine this month.
By Karen Chilton
Portraits by Darío Acosta

Homegrown

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For fifty years, Des Moines Metro Opera has brought great performances to the Heartland.
By Fred Cohn

Re-Awakenings

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Husbands Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman collaborate on a new opera for OTSL.
By Fred Cohn
Portraits by Sasha Maslov

Emotion and Myth

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A reimagined version of Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie’s Harvey Milk opens at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
By Joe Cadagin

New Union

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David Henry Hwang and Huang Ruo make M. Butterfly sing in Santa Fe.
By Jacob Gallagher-Ross

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In Review

Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Omar, given an overwhelming world premiere at Spoleto USA, musicalizes Omar Ibn Said’s's autobiography of life in Senegal and enslavement in North Carolina into an opera that shouldn't be missed.

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Barrie Kosky's scenically pared down, physically kinetic Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera seemed to strand Mozart and Da Ponte’s characters on an inhospitable lunar landscape — but prompted its singers to inject their performances with a remarkable dramatic gravitas.

In Review

Given its world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Tobias Picker’s Awakenings, an adaptation of Dr. Oliver Sacks’s 1973 book of the same name, presents a busy, varied score that effectively mirrors the revived patients’ internal states as they grapple with a world both alien and familiar.