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Metropolitan Opera
December 10, 2020
Robert Jackson Wood
The Stubborn Classism of Classical Music
What critics get wrong about the genre’s long-standing diversity problems
February 6, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Rusalka
Is a Fairy Tale for Our Gilded Era
Kristine Opolais and Jamie Barton glow in the Met’s new production of Antonín Dvorak’s opera.
October 22, 2014
Raphael Magarik
The Anti-'Klinghoffer' Protests Are the Best Thing That Could Happen to the Metropolitan Opera
October 9, 2006
G.W. Bowersock
The Pen and the Baton
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