Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

A surreal, musically luminous revival of Richard Foreman and Michael Gordon’s “What to Wear” arrives at BAM, blending avant-garde staging, a standout ensemble and a haunting meditation on beauty, iden ...

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 ...

One question that arises from Minnesota Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”: how did such an inane story become so embedded in the consciousness of Western culture?

From its insidious opening clarinet solo, Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is a creepy, unsettling piece of theater, its story rooted in unhealthy sexual obsession. For his new production at the ...

1 Post Kennedy Center Split, Washington National Opera Sets Stephen Schwartz Hosted WEST SIDE STORY Gala & More 2 Washington National Opera Negotiates Kennedy Center Exit & Endowment Ownership Neither ...

“Treemonisha” took more than a century to make its Florida debut — and it was so very worth the wait. Scott Joplin’s 1911 opera is being given a production as exquisite as it is exuberant by Opera ...

Taking the stage at LA Opera through May 18, Ainadamar stars mezzo Daniela Mack in the “trouser role” of Lorca opposite soprano Ana María Martínez as Margarita Xirgu, famed Spanish stage actress and ...

Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” is always a challenge: How does a director interpret its superficially misogynistic story—on a bet, two unsuspecting women are manipulated into trading lovers, the assumption ...