Opera Colorado opened its 2024-25 season with the romantic comedy "The Daughter of the Regiment." It's a fun, rollicking ...

Lucy Shelton, a soprano known for her work in the contemporary repertoire, has had a role tailor-made for her in “Lucidity,” ...

I'm not telling a story. I'm showing a story. And that's the difference between writing a novel and writing an opera libretto. It doesn't appear that there's a narrator in opera, but actually there is ...

It’s one of the greatest operas of the 20th century, with sensuously multicolored music by Claude Debussy and a psychologically probing libretto by the Belgian symbolist writer Maurice Maeterlinck.

The Lyric Opera of Kansas City was nominated for Best Opera Recording for "The Shining," an adaptation of Stephen King's ...

The Cook-Off was developed through the Chicago Opera Theater’s Vanguard Initiative, an innovative training program for ...

The opera, with a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte and based on the play by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais, takes place over the ...

A turntable stage sets brings together George Lewis’ newly composed 'The Comet' and Monteverdi’s 'Coronation of Poppea' from ...

Director Barbara Gaines’ production of Mozart’s opera is a bit wacky at times, with the audience waiting for the more ...

In a rare case of an author adapting her own work for the stage, the author is the librettist of a bilingual opera now taking ...

One hundred twenty-two years after its Paris premiere, Debussy’s ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ is getting belated first performances ...

So on September 14 Paul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale opened at San Francisco Opera; and I attended the Sunday matinee on September 22. This is a new production with an English-language libretto by Paul ...