Critic Lloyd Schwartz tells a story about Lezhneva, a Russian singer he "discovered" a few months ago — without realizing he already owned a 2015 recording of her rendition of Handel's early oratorio.

GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz tells us a story about a singer he discovered only a few months ago without realizing he ...

It’s hard for a soprano to get a break in Donizetti’s LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, which I caught up with at the Met on Friday evening. Not that Marie—the role of the title, sung at the Met by Erin ...

Described as “like a sparkly Christmas card come to life” with its shimmering stage set, costumes, Christmas trees and even falling snow, it promises to take audiences “back to a time when Christmas ...

We proudly present the latest of three live presentations from this year's Wexford Festival Opera - Deidamia by George Frideric Handel, live from the O'Reilly Theatre, National Opera House. Watch ...

An African American who spent much of her career based in the Netherlands, she said her race was less of a factor in Europe when being considered for a wide variety of opera roles. By Adam Nossiter ...

In an interview in The Times ahead of her new production of Janáček's The Makropolous Case, Mitchell says she has no more opera in the diary Director Katie Mitchell has announced that she is leaving ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. When it first premiered in 2008, critics praised Alden's staging as ...