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Cultural Attaché talks to director Phil Chan about his bold new vision for Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" at Boston Lyric Opera

Opera: Bravo

Director Phil Chan Puts a New Spin on “Madama Butterfly”

"If we want this work to still have resonance, we need to help clear away some of the 100 years of cultural baggage."

Graham Wetterhahn talks about creating an immersive production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

The Play's The Thing

Graham Wetterhahn Welcomes You Aboard

"Immersive is definitely the buzziest word that gets used. I think we do more event style theater."

"We're all complicated" is one way actor Seth Numrich describes his character in "Power of Sail" to Cultural Attaché

Performers: Close-Up

Actor Seth Numrich: “We’re All Complicated”

"We don't share everything about ourselves. And of course, we move through the world trying to project an image of ourselves that has some relationship to the totality of who we are and our experience. But it's curated, right?"

"Voices from the Killing Jar" by Kate Soper will be performed at The Ford this weekend

Classical: Metronome

Kate Soper Revisits “Voices from the Killing Jar”

"I think it was the start of me becoming more interested in works that had explicit theatrical elements and a legible kind of quasi-narrative element. And it was really a chance for me to really see how versatile I could be as a performer."

Countertenor Iestyn Davies performs in Santa Fe Opera's first-ever production of Benjamin Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Opera: Bravo

Iestyn Davies Learns from the Past to Assure His Future

"The moment you hear this music it's gone. Nobody else will ever hear it again in this version. That's what's really special."

Santa Fe Opera's Harry Bicket talks about Mozart, Britten and the perfect opera

Opera: Bravo

Conductor Harry Bicket On the Perfect Opera

"Even Verdi when he was writing his Shakespeare operas he didn't dare actually take on Shakespeare's text. Britten is one of the few people in history that actually set Shakespeare's text and all but one sentence is the original Shakespeare."