Chorus of approval Jessica Pratt starred as Armida in Garsington's production of the Rossini opera last JuneRobbie Jack / Corbis The bucolic English countryside may seem a strange setting for the ...

In the era of Carmen On the Common and the dominance of classical opera, finding original, modern opera that both entertains and provokes audiences has becoming increasingly difficult. But the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Dido and Aeneas” is the first Opera Kansas production for executive director Zeffin Hollis, who was hired six months ago.

After the British composer and conductor Benjamin Britten wrote two serious operas in the form of Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia, he decided to turn his hand to comedy. The result was Albert ...

Royal English Opera, Covent Garden's current show is Constance which began performances on 1/23/1865. What when was Royal English Opera, Covent Garden built? Royal English Opera, Covent Garden was ...

At Opera Theater of St. Louis here recently, this aria came across with stunning immediacy, because Rigoletto (baritone Roland Wood) sang the words with stinging crispness and brooding power in an ...

English National Opera has announced the first wave of plans for a major new partnership between the company and the city-region of Greater Manchester for the next three years, enabling ENO to be ...

Peter Grimes, one of the centrepiece events of this year’s Brisbane Festival, is a remarkable collaboration between the festival, Opera Queensland, Philip Bacon AM, the Queensland Performing Arts ...

Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...