Spring Preview: Fight Doom and Gloom as Dance and Opera Speak Truth to Power The coming season promises opera that draws on everything from Herman Melville to jazz and blues, and dance that flows from breaking to ballet. By David Cote
Prototype, the New York Festival of Avant-Garde Opera, Turns 12 There was a dizzyingly diverse spectrum of performances this year, with wildly divergent highs and lows. By Annie Levin
Opera Underground: Caroline Shaw’s ‘Partita for 8 Voices’ and Gelsey Bell’s ‘morning//mourning’ at Green-Wood Cemetery The crypt’s eerie atmosphere and the pre-performance libations couldn't quite compensate for the abridged programs. By Gabrielle Ferrari