The English Civil War provides obstacles to Bellini’s lovers, but instead of amping up the drama, the additional history ...

From her first appearance on stage, it was clear that mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina was no flash in the pan when she gave us a scorching Carmen when this production was new just two years ago. The program ...

The Met’s new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s I PURITANI made its debut on New Year’s Eve, but I caught up with it at its ...

Heartbeat Opera, which specializes in rethinking classic titles for contemporary audiences, opened its first fully staged new productions in 3 1/2 years at the Baruch Performing Arts Center last week.

Read our review of *La traviata*, directed by Richard Eyre, now in performances at the Royal Opera House to 17 February. Read ...

In Bordeaux in 1887, New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé finished an opera called Morgiane and, perhaps unknowingly, made history. His magnum opus is the oldest grand opera and the first known opera ...

The Glimmerglass Festival, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this season (through Aug. 17), changed the face of American opera. Along with its fellow summer festivals in Santa Fe and St. Louis, ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — He comes here every day, to gather wood. Axe in hand, the woodcutter (baritone Geoffrey Schmelzer) sang as much when he introduced “In A Grove” with see-sawing modulation, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opera San Antonio cracked open its landmark fifth season Thursday with a lavish, touching production of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved “La Traviata,” the company’s third Verdi show in its history. An opera ...

It shocked even me. With the unveiling of Aldoro, the “fairy godfather” in the Green Mountain Opera Festival production of “La Cenerentola,” jaws dropped — and raucous laughter ensued. That’s pretty ...