Plácido Domingo, Opera Superstar, Achieves the Unthinkable: 150 Roles
The 77-year-old singer will reach a virtually unheard-of milestone when he sings his 150th role at the Salzburg Festival in Austria on Thursday.
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Photo CreditCarlo Allegri/Reuters A Chaotic Stretch for Nicki Minaj Is Capped by a Canceled Tour
After failing to hit No. 1 with her new album, “Queen,” the rapper has scrapped concerts with Future this fall.
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Nicki Minaj and Travis Scott Fumble Toward Yesterday’s Prize: A No. 1 Album
“Queen” and “Astroworld” are the products of two rappers who are preoccupied with the album format, but aren’t especially well-suited to it.
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Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’?
Hans Werner Henze’s opera, based on Euripides’s “The Bacchae,” returns this month to the Salzburg Festival, the site of its premiere in 1966.
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