Michael Cooper

I’m the deputy editor for news on the Times’s Culture desk. Here are 5 things I have been reading, watching and listening to.

I’m the deputy culture editor for news. I’m doing the best I can to find entertainment at home.

A staggering 100 million Americans voted early, suggesting a record turnout. (Published 2020)

Ilhan Omar calls the president’s tweet ‘an evil thing to say,’ and others decry the implicit suggestion that those who die from the virus are weak.

The nation’s largest performing arts organization, shut by the coronavirus pandemic, sends a chilling signal that American cultural life is still far from resuming.

The Zoom where it happens: Biden speaks with Lin-Manuel Miranda about the Latino vote. (Published 2020) - The New York Times

Many artists have not been paid since March at the company, which hopes to return on New Year’s Eve after its longest interruption in over a century.

The opera star, who has been the company’s general director since 2003, resigned, saying allegations had “compromised” his ability to continue.

The company said it had received 10 accusations of “inappropriate conduct” by the opera star, who has begun to face cancellations in Europe as well as America.

The Met, the biggest performing arts organization in the nation, will lose millions in ticket revenues.

Learning to perform without live audiences, or sometimes even theaters, as artists adapt to trying circumstances.

The opera superstar was discussing an agreement to pay the performers’ union to limit statements about its sexual misconduct investigation, but the arrangement fell apart after details were leaked.

It’s the composer’s 250th birthday, and a pilgrimage shines new light on his art and life.

The Yannick Nézet-Séguin era begins in earnest, with the company’s music director leading six productions.

Bryn Terfel, the original star of a new production of Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer,” broke his ankle and withdrew.

An acclaimed Kurtag opera is a highlight of the New York Philharmonic’s 2020-21 programming.

A contemporary-dress Handel production calls to mind “House of Cards,” “Succession” and your choice of rulers in the age of Trump.

Rhiannon Giddens, Jordi Savall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Andrew Norman are among the featured artists.

After two decades, Mark Volpe, the chief executive who tripled the orchestra’s endowment, plans to step down.

The star conductor cemented his commitment to the orchestra after a period of administrative upheaval.