Rossini’s Barber of Seville is a top ten opera in performances. Donors love it for its vocal gymnastics, memorable arias and sparkling melodies. Receptive newcomers like it because of its delightful ...

Jules Massenet’s classic work received a streamlined English adaptation from Heartbeat Opera, with musical-theater performers and a focus on the seamier side of the 18th-century setting.

The setting shift to 1930s upper-crust America gives the revival of the farcical operatic comedy a modern zing and just feels comfortable and fun.

But the most interesting figures are a pair of opera singers: a tenor conscripted into the German army, and his beloved.

An artistic life in a Parisian garret ends in death for Mimi (Ashley Milanese) in Puccini's "La bohème," which runs at the ...

Read our review of The Great Wave at Theatre Royal, Glasgow. Dai Fujikura’s new opera gets bogged down in biographical detail ...

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, ...

Mahagonny, the spider-web city sucking in men (and they are, even in this 2026 take, mostly men) with cash to burn, is the ...

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