Is opera best served by period opulence or radical reinterpretation? In the first of a new series, we put hyperrealistic classics side-by-side with modern Re...

Ahead of his new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Barrie Kosky chats with Kevin Ng in Aix about pretty much everything -- except the details of his new Frau.

Every episode of Decanonized begins with a frankly unreasonable amount of reading. I collect many of these sources on each episode page on d

Gatekeep, guillotine, girlboss.

Despite $17bn in pledges, organisation is stuck in limbo with no money flowing to projects in Gaza

Kate Wagner on a medical miracle

The prime minister plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species and pollute waterways in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects, Althia Raj writes.

Women here have become both the primary caretakers and providers, sustaining their families in the absence of husbands, fathers, and sons.

There’s something irreplaceably human about our voices. How we talk and sing is unique to each one of us, even though a voice can be broken down into its component elements of pitch, duration, volume,...

Before her one-woman La voix humaine with the New York Philharmonic, Barbara Hannigan talks to Kevin Ng about her career, her artistry, and whether or not there's a voice on the other line.

The Call Me By Your Name and Challengers director’s stage production in Florence brings immense skill to John Adams’s controversial opera about a Palestinian terrorist atrocity

From Mimì's consumption to Rent's AIDS crisis, opera has long aestheticized illness—revealing both our deepest fears and our most troubling biases

The Hungarian leader faces an energized opposition—and questions about whether he would accept defeat.

Everywhere you look, politics are seeping into opera. In New York, Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, accompanied onstage by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer, gave a rousing opening-night ...

Lise Davidsen’s titanic voice is made for Isolde and she blends beautifully with Michael Spyres’s marvellous Tristan in the Metropolitan Opera’s eagerly awaited new production

Lise Davidsen’s titanic voice is made for Isolde and she blends beautifully with Michael Spyres’s marvellous Tristan in the Metropolitan Opera’s eagerly awaited new production

WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid...

Nearly 15,000 healthcare workers across New York City are on the picket lines demanding safe staffing and workplace protections.

I think I'm pretty allergic to weepy 16th-century period pieces populated by it-boy movie stars with perfect teeth and chiseled beards and Oscar fantasies, though I tried to approach this one with an ...

Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group that the organization calls “transformational.”