BERLIN — For 25 centuries, a mythic Medea has haunted civilization. The sorceress — mortal granddaughter of Helios, the sun god of Greek mythology — kills two of her children as revenge for her ...

As a part-time opera critic and full-time opera lover, I have attended some 750 opera performances throughout the world. Yet never until now, and in my home-town of Berkeley no less, have I had the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The fascination of opera in the 17th century, as today, was its dual ability to intensify both emotion and enjoyment, magnifying the ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Médée awaits her deportation; the people want the immigrant out. For director Peter Sellars, Marc-Antoine ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

Recent interest in Medea operas began somewhat before Callas-centenary fever broke out when the Metropolitan Opera opened last season with Sondra Radvanovsky starring in its first-ever mounting of ...

The salvaged composition was a portion of Luigi Cherubini's masterpiece Medée. The opera's original score contains an aria that until now had been unperformable due to a large blacked-out area in the ...

Médée is known today as a challenging, dramatic vehicle for great sopranos, most famously for Maria Callas, for whom it was revived and who sang Médée, the king's daughter, who possesses magical ...

Jason texts Médée. He will miss the boys’ concert; he must stay late at work. She registers the text with annoyance as she arrives at the Mozarteum; one of the boys has forgotten his violin. They rush ...

The salvaged composition was a portion of Luigi Cherubini's masterpiece Medée. The opera's original score contains an aria that until now had been unperformable due to a large blacked-out area in the ...