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‘Florencia en el Amazonas’ Review: Exuberant Spanish Singing at the Metropolitan Opera

Just the third work in the language ever performed at the New York institution, composer Daniel Catán’s homage to magical realism proved lavish but low on drama.

Heidi Waleson

9 hours ago

4 min read

‘Spamalot’ Review: King Arthur and His Coconuts, Back on Broadway

The Monty Python musical returns in this blissfully funny revival, directed by Josh Rhodes and featuring a first-rate cast that includes James Monroe Iglehart, Taran Killam and Ethan Slater.

Charles Isherwood

November 17, 2023

4 min read

‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ Review: Songs of Struggle at the Metropolitan Opera

Director Robert O’Hara resurrects Anthony Davis’s 1986 work about the black civil-rights leader, in a production that gives thrilling voice to a richly jazzy score.

By Heidi Waleson

November 14, 2023

5 min read

‘Harmony’ Review: Barry Manilow’s Broadway Passion Project

The pop singer-songwriter’s admirable but busy musical centers on the Comedian Harmonists, a German vocal sextet with Jewish members whose success was cut short by the Nazis’ rise.

Charles Isherwood

November 14, 2023

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‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ Review: A Story of Paralysis Takes Flight

At the Dallas Opera, Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer’s adaptation of the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby movingly depicts the writer’s experience of being left speechless and almost entirely immobile by a stroke.

Heidi Waleson

November 6, 2023

5 min read