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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 ...

Hell hath no fury like a sorceress scorned. This centuries-old tale burns with unrelenting emotional fire, and in Cherubini’s hands, it demands to be retold. Audiences witness the tragedy of Medea, a ...

With his company Lost Dog, Duke has a gift for the flipside of stories. As in his award-winning, one-man Paradise Lost, he looks for the cracks in a narrative, levering them open to find comedy and ...

For several years now I have been hearing of the wildly creative doings coming from Opera Long Beach under the direction of Andreas Mitisek; operas in swimming pools, drag queens in Threepenny Opera, ...

Marshall Pynkoski, co-artistic director of Toronto's Opera Atelier, is fond of quoting Jean Cocteau on the question of style in art. In so many words, Cocteau said that style is something you aim with ...

I’m not a fan of opera’s (and literature’s) madwoman trope—that fearsome and pathetic figure historically sprung from some fevered male brain. But Medea—based on Euripides’s version of the ancient ...

The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover. Five year later she’s ...