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National Sawdust

Two performers, covered in white clay, sit closely together on a wooden bench in a dimly lit stage setting with scattered props, while musicians play string instruments in the background.

Michael Hersch and Shane McCrae On Co-Creating ‘and we, each’

The opera is a chimera: McCrae’s words refracted through Hersch’s sensibility, then reframed yet again by McCrae.
By Gabrielle Ferrari
An atmospheric performance scene inside The Cloisters shows dancers in flowing white and blue costumes illuminated by warm, golden light, with a poetic passage projected onto the stone wall above them.

Rich and Meditative, ‘Primero Sueño’ at the Cloisters Brings Sor Juana to Life

This rich, meditative opera succeeds where other operatic treatments of Sor Juana do not.
By Gabrielle Ferrari
A performer on a stage surrounded by water casting light onto the walls

‘Silent Light’ at National Sawdust Captures the Sounds (and the Scents) of Everyday Life

As an operatic experiment, Silent Light fascinates with slow, unique rhythms all its own.
By Gabrielle Ferrari

Opera and Dance Fall Preview: A Rich Tapestry of Politics, Myth and Mortality

By David Cote

How Opera’s Crisis Can Become an Opera Renaissance

By Ana De Archuleta

Performing Arts Get Political in the 12 Best Dance and Opera Performances This Fall

By Mary von Aue
A Russian revolution inevitably ends in blood in the grand opera 'Dimitrij'.

In Opera, Upstate or in Brooklyn, There Will Be Blood

By James Jorden
War, what is it good for? Uniting cultures, explains baritone Michael Gracco in 'The Gypsy Baron."

Philip Glass and Johann Strauss Agree: The Waltz Is the Thing!

By James Jorden
Kurt Rosenwinkel

The Best in Jazz: Kurt Rosenwinkel’s New Album ‘Caipi’ Is a Must-Listen

By Ron Hart
Pussy Riot, Straight Outta Vagina, 2016.

The Month in Weird: March’s Best Avant-Garde Concerts

By Brad Cohan
PROTOTYPE Festival's 'Funeral Doom Spiritual'

M. Lamar Forges a Righteous Wreck in ‘Funeral Doom Spiritual’

By James Jorden
Director R. B. Schlather ponders the future of opera.

‘Ariodante’ Director R. B. Schlather on the Future of Opera

By James Jorden
Child Abuse

The Month in Weird: November’s Best Avant-Garde Concerts

By Brad Cohan
A House Taken Over.

‘The House Taken Over’ and ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Offer Different Takes on Siblings

By James Jorden
Holy Sons.

The Month in Weird: October’s Best Avant-Garde Concerts

By Brad Cohan
"The Hubble Cantata" premiered in Brooklyn on Aug 6th, 2016

‘The Hubble Cantata’ Explores Orchestral Transcendence in Space by Embracing VR

By Justin Joffe
Members of the cast of "¡Figaro! (90210)."

All the Best Opera: What to See This Season

By James Jorden
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