Lucy Shelton plays a renowned singer with dementia in Laura Kaminsky’s chamber piece at On Site Opera; Lise Davidsen stars in Puccini’s melodrama at the Met. Heidi Waleson ...

In Bordeaux in 1887, New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé finished an opera called Morgiane and, perhaps unknowingly, made history. His magnum opus is the oldest grand opera and the first known opera ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Opera & beyond. All of this serves to amplify the artistic and theatrical excellence of the cast and highlight the expert direction of David Radamés Toro. Efraín ...

2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera Experience a tale of forbidden love set against the ...

You can count on suffering to supply stage music with heft, and Huang Ruo’s choral drama Angel Island mined a mother lode of the stuff in its inaugural run at BAM this past week. Equal parts requiem, ...

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — An opera it was not, but in the world premiere of “mad scramble for crumbs,” Opera Saratoga presented a surrealist work of vocal art worth seeing, not only because it is ...

L-R: Jennifer Johnson Cano (Michele), Michael Mayes (David) and Elena Villalón (Sheila) in Santa Fe Opera's "The Righteous." Curtis Brown for the Santa Fe Op SANTA FE, N.M. — There were, it’s true, ...

The Metropolitan Opera opened its season Monday with the company premiere of Grounded, with a score by Jeanine Tesori and a libretto by George Brant. Theater critic Sara Holdren and music critic ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — He comes here every day, to gather wood. Axe in hand, the woodcutter (baritone Geoffrey Schmelzer) sang as much when he introduced “In A Grove” with see-sawing modulation, ...

I’ve been messing around with Opera Mini as much as I can today, and here’s what I make of it so far. First thing: it’s fast. Most of the time, you get your complete web page downloaded and readable ...