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The Fairy Prince (mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb) guides Lola (soprano Maeve Höglund) through his palace. (Photo by Dominic M. Mercier.)

Opera Philadelphia's O17 Festival presents David Hertzberg's 'The Wake World'

Dreaming wide awake

The O17 world premiere of David Hertzberg’s 'The Wake World' is a bona fide event. But is it a great opera? Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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Sondra Radvanovsky delivers with "passion and playfulness." (Photo by Dominic M. Mercier.)

Opera Philadelphia's O17 Festival presents Sondra Radvanovsky in recital

The diva next door

O17 Festival Artist Sondra Radvanovsky brought vocal glamour and undeniable charm to a wide-ranging recital program. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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The Family Stand, from top left: John Henry (bass-baritone Aubrey Allicock), Un/Sung (spoken-word artist
 Lauren Whitehead), John Blue (countertenor John Holiday), John Little (tenor Daniel Shirley) and John
 Mack (baritone Adam Richardson). (Photo by Dave DiRentis.)

Opera Philadelphia's O17 Festival world premiere 'We Shall Not Be Moved'

The ghosts keep calling

An O17 world premiere, ‘We Shall Not Be Moved’ puts Philadelphia’s past in conversation with its present. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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Pamina (soprano Rachel Sterrenberg) has been ordered to kill Sarastro. (Photo by Kelly & Massa Photography.)

Opera Philadelphia's O17 Festival presents 'The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte)'

Mozart meets Murnau (sort of)

An O17 Festival entry, Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s 'Magic Flute,' collapses under the anxiety of influence. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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Andrew Wyeth's 'Chester County,' 1962, drybrush watercolor on paper, 22½ x 30¾ in. (Courtesy of the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Fowler. ©2017 Andrew Wyeth/Artists Rights Society.)

Dolce Suono Trio at the Brandywine River Museum of Art

Music makes art make music

To round out its celebration of Andrew Wyeth’s 100th birthday, the Brandywine River Museum presented the Dolce Suono Trio in an artful concert. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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Pianist Ursula Oppens, champion of new music. (Photo by Hillary Scott)

Philadelphia Young Pianists' Academy presents Ursula Oppens

Ursula Oppens, seeker of melodies

Ursula Oppens is a champion of modern music, playing and performing the most formidable music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Margaret Darby reviews.
Margaret Darby

Margaret Darby

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Hitting a brick wall: The Schmitt Musical Mural in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Bosc D'Anjou, via Creative Commons/Flickr.)

What they never tell you about composing

Hitting a brick wall

Ahead of Piffaro's celebration of the Reformation, Kile Smith confronts the part of composing they never tell you about.
Kile Smith

Kile Smith

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From Menotti's 'The Medium,' l to r: Josh Gold, Paula Rivera-Dantagnan and Elizabeth Holmes. (Photo by John Sturgis Photography)

Delaware Valley Opera Company presents an operatic threesome

Puccini, Menotti, and Misha Dutka all at once

Delaware Valley Opera Company offers a rarely heard Menotti masterpiece, but its South-Philly-based '"Johnny" Schicchi' is too clever by half. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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Philadelphia Orchestra president and CEO Allison Vulgamore. (Photo by J.D. Scott.)

Allison Vulgamore leaves the Philadelphia Orchestra

CEO's departure leaves the orchestra's wheels spinning

With the departure of the Philadelphia Orchestra's president and CEO, the company finds itself at a crossroads... again. Robert Zaller considers.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

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Marcy Stonikas as Leonore/Fidelio. (Photo by Jessi Franko Designs LLC.)

Princeton Festival presents Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio'

A Wonder Woman for all time

The Princeton Festival opens Beethoven's 'Fidelio,' an opera as fresh today as it was more than 200 years ago. Linda Holt reviews.
Linda Holt

Linda Holt

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