Mae West famously asked, 'Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?' Well, at the beginning of the ...

Read our review of La Traviata at Garsington Opera, Wormsley: beautifully conceived and sung take on the Verdi favourite, ...

Beth Taylor's richly shaded title role and Sinéad O'Neill's inventive Whistler-inflected staging make this a Longborough ...

Others have done similar things: Samson – based on Milton’s work in what he considered to be the style of Greek drama – is a text that cries out to be staged, and has been. Messiah, too, albeit that ...

AMHERST — Opera channels our clearest emotions: those so innate that they splash out in naive singsong, and those so deep that, when released, they can only bear to be sung. “The Onion,” with a ...

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There’s a certain neat irony at the heart of this. A female director, returning to this opera for a second season (and for ...

"The Barber of Seville," San Francisco Opera''s charming opener of the summer season, is a Rossini gem about power plays, ...

Opera is perceived as the most traditional of the performing arts—its repertory ossified into a canon of 19th-century warhorses, its performance style determined by the constraints of the proscenium ...

I still remember how my heart would pound with excitement each week as the latest episode of “Game of Thrones” began unfolding on my TV screen. I had the same feeling Friday night at the Dr. Phillips ...

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis makes a practice of reviving underperformed contemporary operas. This season’s example is Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002), a chamber piece that examines the ...