The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to ...

Original director David McVicar’s famous production of the Richard Strauss opera gets its bloody, eye-popping U.S. debut in ...

The premiere of Kevin Puts' newly revised work pulsates with power from such singers as Sylvia D'Eramo and Miles Mykkanen as ...

From her first appearance on stage, it was clear that mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina was no flash in the pan when she gave us a scorching Carmen when this production was new just two years ago. The program ...

Palm Beach Opera's La bohème is straightforward but enlivened by strong performances such as Sydney Mancasola's Musetta 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 ...

The Glimmerglass Festival, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this season (through Aug. 17), changed the face of American opera. Along with its fellow summer festivals in Santa Fe and St. Louis, ...

Opera San Antonio cracked open its landmark fifth season Thursday with a lavish, touching production of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved “La Traviata,” the company’s third Verdi show in its history. An opera ...

One of the biggest challenges opera companies face is balancing their audiences’ unquenchable thirst for seeing the same dozen or so classic works with the need to present less-known and newer works ...

Opera Orlando artistic director Grant Preisser had a nifty idea: There are two shortish operas, both set in a town square in Sicily, both taking place in a single day and both dealing with love and ...