Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

Operavore keeps its finger on the pulse of the international opera scene. We offer news bulletins from the around the globe, previews of new recordings, and interviews with the players and ...

Stripped of some of its excess movement, Hytner’s elegant concept speaks clearly and wittily. Here is a Handel opera seria refracted through the anarchic world of the 18 th-century pleasure garden.

In continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in ...

Though he's seen a number of Peking Opera performances over the years, the Canadian Peking Opera fan never fully understood the plot until recently, when the China Academy of Traditional Opera offered ...

English Touring Opera's Spring 2017 season features the company's first ever Gilbert & Sullivan production, a Puccini favourite marking the opera debut of stage director Blanche McIntyre, and two new ...

In the first act of Semele, George Frideric Handel’s 1743 opera in English, Semele leaves her betrothed at the altar for Juno’s husband, Jupiter, and Semele’s sister hooks up with the abandoned fiancé ...

AFTER a silence of about five years, Massenet’s “Manon” has been revived at the Metropolitan, and the worst has happened. We hear from “Manon” fanciers that full justice was not done to Massenet’s ...

Greater Worcester Opera presents its production "Love Italian Style" June 5 to 8 at Calliope Theatre in Boylston. The production consists of scenes from "La Bohème," "The Telephone," and "La Traviata, ...

Joan of Arc occupies a special place in the hearts of New Orleanians. As one of the patron saints of France, the former mother country of Louisiana, her heroism in battle and the morale she inspired ...