The setting shift to 1930s upper-crust America gives the revival of the farcical operatic comedy a modern zing and just feels ...
A high-concept stunt? A rare stroke of artistic luck? A Frankensteinian collage of 21st-century life? All of that can be said about Complications in Sue, an opera of sorts that premiered with ...
Conventional wisdom has it that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” has been a bankable opera house favorite for more ...
Original director David McVicar’s famous production of the Richard Strauss opera gets its bloody, eye-popping U.S. debut in ...
Palm Beach Opera's La bohème is straightforward but enlivened by strong performances such as Sydney Mancasola's Musetta and ...
Most cinematic musical biopics don’t give you a strong enough sense of the combination of imagination and hard work that making music requires. But Minnesota Opera is premiering a work that offers ...
AMHERST — Opera channels our clearest emotions: those so innate that they splash out in naive singsong, and those so deep that, when released, they can only bear to be sung. “The Onion,” with a ...
The crumbling English country house setting gives a radical twist to the opera’s complex social web ...
With a pacing faster than a sitcom and sometimes funnier, Opera Sartatoga’s production of “La Vie Parisienne” is all about indulgence, desire and diversion. Best known for his comedies, the French ...
A scandalous fellow wrote a scandalous play which became a scandalous opera. Kelly Slawson brings a dazzlingly powerful, beautiful voice to the title role. It’s an unforgettable triumph in a real tour ...
Irish National Opera’s production of  The Cunning Little Vixen is also touring to Cork, Limerick, and other centres ...
GREAT BARRINGTON — Before she entered to heralding horns as the wing-bedecked Guardian Angel, in fact before this pioneering opera-or-oratorio even began, mezzo-soprano Salomé Sandoval had another ...