Kentucky Opera announces its 23/24 season. All four operas will be sung in English, with performances in The Brown Theatre and the Opera Center. Appearing on the Kentucky Opera stage for the first ...

Opera-Lytes just finished their run of RUDDIGORE, OR THE WITCHES CURSE, an operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan, and you can read my review below. Of course, the very British G&S operettas are sung in the ...

English Touring Opera (ETO) presents new productions of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress for its Spring 2024 tour. The season explores the temptations and pitfalls of the ...

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 ...

In continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in ...

Milan’s famed opera house is cracking down on the underdressed, even as it and other European opera companies try to attract a wider audience. By Amelia Nierenberg The Glyndebourne Festival, which ...

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 ...

Opera Kansas is opening its 40th season by smashing stereotypes about the art form. Purcell’s “Dido & Aeneas” is staged for three performances next weekend at the Fisch Haus, in the Commerce Street ...