Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet.

I grew up with a mother who loved opera, and was taken by her in utero in San Francisco to experience Puccini's Turandot. As ...

The Grand Théâtre de Genève is certainly not risk-averse and Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó controversially translates the action to a penthouse bar in New York.

Long Beach Opera embarks on a risky, unprecedented season centered on pioneering composer Pauline Oliveros. "We’re just going ...

The season's six productions are themed to twilight and transformation, as exemplified by Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. General & ...

Slovak set designer Boris Kudlička has been honoured with Poland's Gloria Artis Gold Medal for Cultural Merit, a prestigious ...

Polish opera director Mariusz Treliński has received the Gold Gloria Artis Medal for Cultural Merit, a prestigious state ...

Next weekend, a star-studded cast takes the stage in Steinmetz Hall as Opera Orlando presents Massenet's Cendrillon, a ...

Premiered simultaneously in Hamburg and Cologne in 1920, Die tote Stadt certainly justified the lofty praise heaped on ...

The director on the threat to ENO’s future, how opera is being ‘dumbed down’ – and why he’s staging Tchaikovsky’s ...

The Bermuda Opera Team is set to present Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette on Sunday [Feb 2] at 5.00pm at BUEI. A spokesperson said, ...

The issue of cultural appropriation remains a hot topic in opera. Is it still PC to have Puccini’s Madama Butterfly set in Japan or his Turandot in China? And what is to be done with Verdi’s Aida, a ...