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Since 2015, VAN has been dedicated to covering groundbreaking work in the world of classical music and opera, with a special focus on women and non-binary artists. If you’re looking for a place to start with our archive of nearly 800 articles, here are a few of our favorites.
Essays
End Transmission
The Dead Girl trope goes to the opera
Out of the Woods
The premiere recording of Ethel Smyth’s opera “Der Wald” shows a composer whose music should not be overshadowed by her personality
Like the Volga Singing
Janáček, Freud, and the forces that drive us.
Women In Love
The possibilities of female queerness in opera.
Reports
The Perception of Possibility
Women conductors take equality into their own hands
“What Do You Do with It When You Go Home?”
On the road with Joyce DiDonato’s EDEN
“The Perfect Voice in the Wrong Body”
On body shaming in opera
I Am Singing About Myself
Conversations with Black Otellos
Playlists
A Kaija Saariaho Playlist
The composer in her own words and worlds
A Trans Composers Playlist
Politics, aesthetics, and deconstructed binaries, curated by Alex Temple
Chains Are My Reward
State violence and resistance in opera
A Barbara Hannigan Playlist
Inhabiting a character in song
Interviews
God Sing Through Me
An interview with soprano Janet Williams on her pathbreaking teacher, soprano Camilla Williams
The Light at the End
An interview with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote
What Happened to Marina Poplavskaya?
The Russian soprano sets the record straight.
The Listener is Present
Marina Abramović on music
Uncanny Songs
An interview with Na’ama Zisser
Feminine Beginnings
An interview with Susan McClary
Patriarchal Structures
An interview with Olga Neuwirth
Queen Of The Gods
An interview with Margarete Joswig
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