Like La traviata, which opened the Dallas Opera season — and numerous other operatic hits — Pelléas ends with a woman’s death ...
The 2024-25 Kentucky Opera season launches this month with “Madama Butterfly,” a powerful tragedy from the legendary Giacomo ...
The Tales of Hoffmann’, an ‘opera fantastique’, was Jacques Offenbach’s valedictory work and an attempt by the composer, the ...
The Atlanta Opera’s peppy and graceful staging of Mozart’s The Magic Flute provided a joyful conclusion to the high drama of ...
The MSU College of Music last performed The Magic Flute ten years ago as the first program staged in the renovated Fairchild ...
It's hard to know exactly what to make of Jacques Audiard's ambitious "Emilia Pérez," a Spanish-language musical melodrama ...
It's an 18th century story of love between royals, replete with quests, trials by fire and water, and an evil queen to confront.
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 ...
The libretto for the Valley Light Opera’s show, however ... performing Japanese characters), even though the show is in English (with English supertitles) and was written to parody British ...
As Tamino, Rude, a tall man with a surprising tenor range, exudes a fine blend in his princely role of romantic gullibility and sincerity. As Pamina, Rosenthal shows graceful innocence and a more-than ...
King’s resurrection of Jennens’s crucial role, laboring in private over a libretto that he hoped would inspire “the ...