#New York City Opera

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The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opened in New York City on September 23, 1962.

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Life cover from December 28, 1936 featuring members of the Metropolitan Opera's ballet company practicing. This company, called the American Ballet, eventually morphed into the New York City Ballet.

Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt via Life magazine Instagram

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Ashlyn Harris & Sophia Bush attend the American Ballet Theatre New York Premiere of "Woolf Works" at The Metropolitan Opera on June 25, 2024 in New York City.

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Jackie Onassis at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. May 21st, 1973.

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On October 14, 1943, Phantom of the Opera debuted in New York City.

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(Actually) Short Takes

The Roommate on broadway, 9/25/24 -- a woman in front of me complained that the woman sitting in front of her was "too tall" (she wasn't!) and reached out to pat down the woman's hair. I would have decked her! That whole thing was more memorable than the play, even though (unsurprisingly) Mia Farrow and Patty Lupone were great.

Grounded at the Met Opera, 9/27/24 -- perhaps a controversial opinion, I didn't think this was that bad. Maybe reaching for something cinematic when it should be doing opera, yet the ending is pure opera (a fiery final act of defiance that burnishes an anti-hero against the backdrop of a totalizing capitalist hellscape). With better music this could be great, which, yeah, kind of a huge problem for an opera.

Joni Mitchell 10/20/2024 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles -- what can I say, unforgettable for any Joni fan, hard to rate objectively.

ABT's Crime & Punishment 10/30/24 at David H. Koch Theatre -- woof. World premier of quite a miss, unforch.

Rigoletto at the Met Opera, Nov. 1. 2024. Good to very good. The plot feels more chilling every time I watch this opera.

Die Frau Ohne Schatten at the Met Opera, Dec 14, 2024 -- this was amazing. Like 2.5 hours of wtf am I watching and 20 minutes of experiencing the sublime. It's not really 2.5 hours of wtf, a lot of it is interesting and clever even before the musically mind-blowing ending. And what a cast! An opera about reproductive anxiety...there really is never a wrong moment for great art.

Tosca at the Met Opera, Jan 17 2025 -- Sandra Radvanovsky comprehensively owns the part of Tosca in our times. She sang all her costars right off stage.

NYCB Art Series/All Stravinsky -- Jan 24 2025 -- surprisingly very good, I had low expectations. From worst to best: Danses Concertantes (Balanchine), Concertino (Robbins), Stravinsky Violin Concerto (Balanchine), The Cage (Robbins). My ballet objet petit a Sarah Mearns was ravishing in Violin Concerto (I love her, so sue me). The series' eponymous art was....fine. But it made DAK Center look amazing. The only ballet I truly didn't like was Danses, the other 3 were honestly great.

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PINKCORE -- PINK ART -- PINK HEART. 👀🩷😁

ARTIST: Keith Haring (1958-1990)

TITLE: Untitled ("Heart Face")

YEAR: 1984

MEDIA FORMAT: Acrylic on styrofoam panel

SIZE: 66 x 70,5 cm | 26 x 27.8 in

Resolution at, top to bottom: 1800×1593 & 1200x1062.

Sources: www.operagallery.com/event/20th-and-21st-century-icons & Pinterest.

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When you want to visit the Alhambra but mom’s like “we got the Alhambra at home”

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Tim Bernardes – The Opera House– September 19, 2024

While he’s known for fronting the São Paulo psych-garage trio O Terno, Tim Bernardes also does his own thing as a solo performer, crafting a contemporary sound influenced by Brazilian music from the ’60s and ’70s. He’s put out a pair of acclaimed albums under his own name — and in the middle of a three-city American tour, the singer-songwriter-producer-composer landed in Brooklyn to headline the Opera House on Thursday night.

Photos courtesy of Ehud Lazin | www.ehudlazin.com

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Playing

Philip Glass SATYAGRAHA

Christopher Keene New York City Opera Orchestra and Chorus

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The Metropolitan Opera House opened at Lincoln Center in New York City on September 16, 1966, with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.

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Violinist Efrem Zimbalist rehearses the cast of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, which he conducted at the Mecca Temple (now the City Center), February 15, 1935. The opera was the first of series of five given under the auspices of the Art of Musical Russia, Inc.

Photo: Associated Press

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Ashlyn Harris & Sophia Bush attend the American Ballet Theatre New York Premiere of "Woolf Works" at The Metropolitan Opera on June 25, 2024 in New York City.

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Actor and comedian Otis Harlan, star of the 1900 Broadway production of the cowboy musical 'The Black Sheep', is pictured on a theater lobby card.

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Fall 1900. New York City. "Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway and 39th Street."

Photo by Detroit Photographic Company

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