Guildhall double bill speaks truth to power Why stage Der Wald and Lucrezia together? Dominic Wheeler, head of opera studies ...
As Korea’s opera scene heads into the year’s final stretch, major companies across the country are unveiling high-profile ...
Irish opera star Tara Erraught is the special guest for the Candlelight Concerts by D-Entertainment in the beautiful setting of St Joseph’s Redemptorist Church for two nights in November. This ...
Sarasota Opera opened its fall season Oct. 31 with a spirited and finely balanced "Così fan tutte," conducted by Victor DeRenzi and directed by Stephanie Sundine. Mozart’s comedy of fidelity— a farce ...
Minnesota Opera is doing something similar with its new production of Mozart’s rom-com of an opera, “Così fan tutte,” which opens the company’s 63rd season. Mozart and his librettist left this opera ...
Cavalleria rusticana” by Pietro Mascagni and “Pagliacci” by Ruggero Leoncavallo are two operas with much in common. Both are outstanding examples of verismo in opera (creating realism on stage), both ...
In Irish National Opera’s Puccini staging, Celine Byrne’s character is assured and forward-thinking rather than naive and vulnerable ...
Opera gets into the emotional cracks other genres can’t reach ... But the solo singing is superb. Mezzo Christine Rice pours balmy, liquid phrasing into Heggie’s grateful writing, the uncomplicated ...
Check out photos of the San Francisco Opera's one-night-only concert of music by Manuel de Falla and Ludwig van Beethoven on Saturday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the War Memorial Opera House.
No less moving are the representations of the other victims of the crimes: Sarah Connolly as De Rocher’s loving, ...
Music Director Eun Sun Kim and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra went back to Beethoven for their fall concert, which also featured music by Manuel de Falla.
Two 90-minute operas with the same directors give some one-hit wonders a grand if occasionally formal double bill.