Director Julia Burbach’s musically stylish but exhaustingly staged update could do with more of Rossini’s fairy dust ...
When contemporary opera struggles to find its own stories to tell, it plunders promiscuously from other genres — films, ...
When a new opera receives 85 productions in 25 years you know it must be something extraordinary. So all eyes were on the Coliseum last night for the British premiere of librettist Terence McNally’s ...
Opera-Lytes just finished their run of RUDDIGORE, OR THE WITCHES CURSE, an operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan, and you can read my review below. Of course, the very British G&S operettas are sung in the ...
Royal English Opera, Covent Garden's current show is Constance which began performances on 1/23/1865. What when was Royal English Opera, Covent Garden built? Royal English Opera, Covent Garden was ...
Milan’s famed opera house is cracking down on the underdressed, even as it and other European opera companies try to attract a wider audience. By Amelia Nierenberg The Glyndebourne Festival, which ...
Rigolletto. No, it's not a new pasta dish, or a brand of chewing gum. It's an opera. And please don’t mention opera in England right now, because the English National Opera company is about to go on ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "British opera doesn't play safe, and neither does Odyssey Opera," said Gil ...
The Opera Theatre of Yale College is performing entirely in English to attract both opera aficionados and newcomers alike to enjoy scenes from classic operas.
Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...
Opera buffs expecting a traditional opera at the world premiere of Signor Goldoni were surprised with English. The opera marks the third centennial of the birth of one of Venice's favorite sons, Carlo ...