EditorialRacquel Osmotherly, right, consoling her partner, Bruce Dodd, in Lower Portland, in the Australian state of New South Wales, which has experienced severe flooding the past two years, March 9, 2022. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialRacquel Osmotherly, right, consoling her partner, Bruce Dodd, in Lower Portland, in the Australian state of New South Wales, which has experienced severe flooding the past two years, March 9, 2022. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Donald Palumbo, the Metropolitan Opera’s chorus master; the baritone Justin Austin; the tenor Stephen Costello; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company’s music director; the soprano Angel Blue; and the bass-baritone Eric Owens, after a concert at the Knockdown Center in Queens, May 16, 2021. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)