The New York Times

The Nearly Lost Work of a ‘Born Opera Composer’ Returns

Only one copy survives of Carolina Uccelli’s 1835 opera “Anna di Resburgo.” The story behind it is a human one, touching and somewhat sad. Carolina Uccelli, the courageous but unfulfilled 19th-century ...
The New Yorker

Two Centuries Later, a Female Composer Is Rediscovered

“A secret appointment exists between past generations and our own,” Walter Benjamin wrote. “Our arrival on earth was expected.” At pivotal moments, the philosopher argued, voices from the past reach ...
The New York Times

Anna Netrebko Returns to Berlin, Amid Protests and Some Boos

The Russian star soprano appeared in her first staged opera in Germany since the Ukraine invasion, still under fire for her past support for President Vladimir V. Putin. By Zachary Woolfe Reporting ...
BelTA

‘Not boring, but fashionable’. How the Bolshoi Theater shapes Belarusian opera’s modern image

Opera is not boring; it is wonderful. And everything we are doing today is intended to touch the depths of the soul and ...