Like La traviata, which opened the Dallas Opera season — and numerous other operatic hits — Pelléas ends with a woman’s death ...

The work also includes anonymous libretto inspired by the Old Testament’s King Solomon, featuring several celebrated numbers from Handel’s Solomon, including the famous ‘sinfonia’ that opens Act 3: ...

George Loomis on “Macbeth” at the Parma Festival Verdi.

The Tales of Hoffmann’, an ‘opera fantastique’, was Jacques Offenbach’s valedictory work and an attempt by the composer, the ...

The 2024-25 Kentucky Opera season launches this month with “Madama Butterfly,” a powerful tragedy from the legendary Giacomo ...

With an English-language libretto written by DuBose Heyward (with lyrics by Heyward and Ira Gershwin), which was based on Heyward's novel, Porgy (1925), Porgy and Bess is set in the African-American ...

Handel, a German-British musician who introduced Londoners to Italian opera in the early 18th century, composed the ...

The MSU College of Music last performed The Magic Flute ten years ago as the first program staged in the renovated Fairchild ...

The Atlanta Opera’s peppy and graceful staging of Mozart’s The Magic Flute provided a joyful conclusion to the high drama of ...

It's hard to know exactly what to make of Jacques Audiard's ambitious "Emilia Pérez," a Spanish-language musical melodrama ...