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 ...

Former shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire is to head a new trade body representing the UK's opera sector ...

Turning an Oscar-winning film into an opera is a challenging and risky task, but the English National Opera's production of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking is a brilliant and stunning example of how ...

After the British composer and conductor Benjamin Britten wrote two serious operas in the form of Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia, he decided to turn his hand to comedy. The result was Albert ...

The season opens with Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème" from Jan. 23-26, followed by Georges Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" from ...

When contemporary opera struggles to find its own stories to tell, it plunders promiscuously from other genres — films, ...

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.

Buxton International Festival (9-26 July 2026) proudly unveils its 2026 operas, including four brand new productions, a ...

After a half-century of community theater, the Gilbert and Sullivan-focused company faces new challenges with the same ...

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Opera UCT dazzled audiences at Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre with a modern, Cape Town–inspired performance of Die Fledermaus, ...

Everybody wants a piece of Frida,” says choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. “They’re inspired by her story, not just the ...