Production maximizes power of Puccini's music and drama — filling out characters, heightening emotions, enhancing humor and ...

This new opera assembles a compassionate, haunting portrait of the middle class that emerged from World War II and considers ...

The opera, which marries the music of Antonio Vivaldi with a new libretto by Sarah Ruhl, was still on solid ground musically ...

The Metropolitan Opera premiered an expanded version of Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation, which had its East Coast premiere at ...

Wherein the villain Phantom aka Erik is especially skilled at strangling people with the Punjab lasso; a looped rope, like a ...

Michael Cavanagh's sleek new production, designed by Erhard Rom and conducted by James Conlon, transforms the 18th-century ...

Straz Center’s Opera Tampa has revealed its 30th anniversary season featuring the work of Benjamin Britten, Wolfgang Amadeus ...

Two of the three previous times we’ve experienced her working was from the pit with the Arizona Opera orchestra; all we could ...

Broadcast opera retains some of that immediacy, but without the magic of a live performance, it’s harder to forgive its failings. Watching the machinations of the orchestra down in the pit or ...

On March 15, the Portland Opera is set to present "The Shining" an opera by Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell. The ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Richmond County Orchestra will present the prodigy talent of 10-year-old pianist Letao Li and high ...

When L.J. Gielen first saw the Grand Opera House of the South in 1973, it was a shadow of its former self. There were tractor parts on the stage. Lawn mowers and silver-barrel barbeque pits were ...