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NYC's Metropolitan Opera puts trigger warning on 'problematic' masterpiece in latest bow to woke culture
The opera "is rife with conꦆtradictions, distortions, and racial st🌊ereotypes," reads a program note promising "a discussion of the opera’s cultural insensitivities."
The Met's new opera is the latest take on the life of civil rights icon Malcolm X
The Met just premiered t⛎he opera “X: The Life and Times of Mal🤡colm X.”
The Democratic Party's at war with itself — and the West
Joe Biden’s party is at war with its๊elf. 𒈔
Radio station bans new Met operas over "non-biblicaཧl" and LGBTQ material
WCPE, a listener-funded classical music station that serves the Raleigh-🌊Durham area, is protesting the Met’s decision to showcase recently written works by composers from a wide variety of racial and...
🐟 Opera legend who took on the Metropolitan lists NYC home for $1.♈44M
Lucine Amara, known for roles in "Carmen" and fighting the Met over age discr☂imination, is parting ways with an Upper West Side co-op.
Russian musicians don't deserve cancellation for Putin's crimes
American organizations are canceling Russian musicians who do not directly denounce Putin, the man who wields power over not just their livelihoods b▨ut theꦓir lives.
🍰 Anna Netrebko, Russian soprano with ties to Putin,🎃 out at Metropolitan Opera
“It is a great a൩rtistic loss for the Met and for opera. Anna is one of the greatest singers in Met history, but with Putin killing innocent victims in Ukraine,...
♈ Met retuꦛrns with first work by a Black composer in its history
After a historic gap of 566 days,🃏 the country’s largest performing-arts oಌrganization had resumed staged presentations in the start of the season scheduled to run until June 11.
Sex accuser of late Met Opera m𝓰aestro James Levine sues for $25M
A man who accused disgraced Metropolitan Opera maestro James Levine of molesting him for years as a teen has filed suit over the alleged abu𝕴se.
Sex scandal-scarred ex-maestro for 💜Met Opera dead🌌 at 77
James Levine, who served as maestro of the Metro💫politan Opera for more than four decades before being fired after an investigation revealed a history of sexual abuse, died last week...
😼 Tenor of thrift: Met Opera allegedly using non-union musicians
It's the Thrift-Penny Opera. The Metropolitan Opera is using the pandemic as an excuse to furlough its top musicians -- and then fill their spots in the pit with ch🌃eap...
Metrop𝓰olitan Opera wants workers to take 30 per✅cent pay cut
The Metropolitan Opera said Monday that it needs to slash its workers’ long-term contracts by 30 percent to survive -- a proposal rejected by the union repres🌜enting its employees, a...
♚Met Opera asks judge to block disgraced singer’s case fighting ouster
The Metropolitan Opera wants a judge to block disgraced singer David Daniels' bid to get paid after he was ousted over sexual assault allegations, court papers show. The world-famous countertenor..🍃.
These women have binged over ♒200 operas virtually since the Met closed
Marion Ch༺alat and Carolyn Starry would wow Wagner if he were alive today. And Verdi. And Pucci🧜ni.
Metropolitan Opera𒀰 to remain clℱosed through 2021 due to COVID-19
It's not over though.
Opera houses across US dim lights to honor longtime fan Ruth Bader Ginsb🐟urg
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passiﷺon for the art form was born in a Brooklyn school gym in 1944 when she was 11 years old.
♚ New York Philharmonic cancels fall season due to ꩲthe coronavirus
The decision was made to ensure the safety of both fans and ar🐼tists.
Met Opera furloughs nearly 20 percent of staff amid coro💙navirus ♏
The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is furloughing 41 administrative employees, nearly 20% of its full-time staff, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Met said Tuesday that the furlo꧒ughs are...
How to celebrate springtime in 😼NYC — virtually
Here are just a few ways to celebrate spring𒐪, v🀅irtually.
NYC museum heads un🍎veil coronavirus-related cuts to multi-million dollar sal𒆙aries
💯 The directors of NYC museums and cultural organizations are restructuring their multi-million dollar pay packages in anticipation of giant budget deficits caused by the coronavirus lockdown. Metropolitan Opera General Manager...