In his 2024 book, “A New Philosophy of Opera,” the American director Yuval Sharon offered a radical vision for an art form that is often mired in convention and conformity. He posited that opera’s ...

The opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s new Tristan und Isolde was one of those great nights at the opera, the kind that will have people arguing what shone most: the confident complexity of ...

Paul Curran makes his Company debut directing his production from Venice's Teatro La Fenice which features renowned Wagnerian interpreters Simon O'Neill and Anja Kampe in the title roles. In ...

The lovers are together then, but they spend the outer acts mostly apart, in their own personal hells. It’s vital that the soprano and tenor are equally matched, but given the insane vocal demands, ...

In a lounge beneath the Metropolitan Opera, the towering Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen is the picture of calm. “My husband jokes I am like a pressure cooker,” she says with a laugh, sitting ...

Acoustically that seems to have been a challenge for those I know who were present at the Met, the orchestra supposedly overwhelming the singers, but not in the sound for the screening. And the ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Bill Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and ...

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For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Bill Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and ...