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RENÉE FLEMING: LIFE AT THE TOP
Tenor Rising: Lawrence Brownlee Broadway's Top Composers Reveal Their Favorite Operas Ghost Story: The Bonesetter's Daughter Sings Revisiting Bernstein's Mass William Friedkin at LAO Liam Bonner Mignon Dunn Our Picks for the Season's Smartest Tickets
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Hot Tickets
A preview of the coming season’s most eagerly awaited events.
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Her Favorite Year

This season at the Met, Renée Fleming will sing two of her favorite roles — Thaïs and Rusalka — and star in the company's opening-night gala. America's favorite soprano talks to F. PAUL DRISCOLL about the year she calls "one of the high points of my career."
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Amazing Grace

No honking and screaming for Lawrence Brownlee, who has forged a major career by singing with consummate ease. JAMES C. WHITSON visits with the bel canto stylist extraordinaire.
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Good Humor Man
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Mark Campbell talks to ADAM WASSERMAN about the seemingly forgotten art of crafting a comic-opera libretto.
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The Craftsman

Los Angeles Opera's new Il Trittico features the company return of Oscar-winning director William Friedkin, who relishes working in an art form he loves. BRIAN KELLOW reports.
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Buzzworthy

Los Angeles Opera gears up for the U.S. premiere of The Fly, by Howard Shore and David Henry Hwang. WILLIAM V. MADISON is intrigued.
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Ghost Story
This month, San Francisco Opera unveils The Bonesetter's Daughter, Stewart Wallace and Amy Tan's adaptation of Tan's haunting novel. JANET A. CHOI raises the curtain.
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Say What You Feel
Marin Alsop's October 24 performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass is one of the most eagerly-awaited events in Carnegie Hall's ninetieth-birthday tribute to the late master. Composer NICO MUHLY dashes off some notes on Bernstein's once-controversially populist 1971 work.
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Over the Borderline

MICHAEL PORTANTIERE asks seven top Broadway composers about their thoughts on opera.
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Out of the Shadows

Why isn't baritone Laurent Naouri better known? WILLIAM V. MADISON explains.
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