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Profiling Goya at Spoleto Festival USA

In Michael Nyman's Facing Goya, the artist's head ends up in the worst possible hands.

Ethereal new opera Matsukaze at Lincoln Center Festival

Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Matsukaze is in many ways a model of modern cross-cultural creation. Premièred in Brussels in 2011, it sets a story from the traditional Japanese Noh theater in a more or less Western operatic framework. And the text is in German.

Forebodings: Elizabeth Futral embodies Saarihao's Émilie at Lincoln Center Festival

“I put into your hands manuscripts that I very much wish will remain after me,” wrote Émilie du Châtelet shortly before the birth of her fourth child in 1749. “I hope... that my lying-in, which I am expecting at any moment, will not be fatal, as I fear.” Her fears did prove fatal, and she died days after giving birth, at the age of 42.