My first article of the 2026-27 season will be published on Monday, Oct. 19. Its principal subject is the new Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s Macbeth, but it will also include a recommendation (with links) for a significant series of entries on the state of orchestral playing by Joseph Horowitz, and some thoughts on the relationship between opera and ballet occasioned by recent examples of each—both of importance to the present condition of opera.

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