Why include traditional Georgian dance in a production of “Macbeth”? For the opera, the action director wanted something visceral: “I wanted to actually smell the sweat.”

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Pour ouvrir sa troisième saison à l’Opéra de Lausanne, Claude Cortese, son directeur, a la judicieuse idée de choisir Mireille, le chef-d’œuvre trop p

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Kain und Abel vom Staatstheater Darmstadt ist für die International Opera Awards 2026 in der Kategorie „Rediscovered Work“ nominiert.

Die Theaterferien sind vorbei. Endlich wieder Zeit für große Oper. Die Semperoper startete mit Verdis „Un ballo in maschera“ in die neue Saison.

The Texas company’s first commissioned opera, with a score by Jorge Sosa and a libretto by John de los Santos, is a Mexican-infused take on a fairy tale.

Der Journalist Andreas Schmidt und sein AutorInnen-Team berichten über klassische Konzerte und Opern – auch aus Sicht der begeisterten Zuhörer.

Nur selten gespielt wird die Oper "Das Wunder der Heliane" aus der Feder von Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Corruption, redemption, lies. Parsifal is ripe with symbols and dogmas for a director to toy with and tear down. So why is Evgeniy Titov's iconoclastic…

In "The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age," the cultural historian and novelist resurrects Wagner’s American apostle—and a progressive, populist musical culture that New York has largely fo...

Ein Gedenkkonzert mit dem Philharmonia Orchestra London ehrt in Berlin den dort vor 25 Jahren verstorbenen italienischen Dirigenten.

Evgeny Titov’s brutal and powerful new staging of Wagner’s final opera explains as little as possible. Christian Gerhaher is a compelling and wild-eyed Amfortas and Jakub Hrůša and the Royal Opera’s o...

Some of the banter lasted longer than the songs in this entertaining recital by the young (and newly British) opera star

In der Kölner Oper sah ich noch Wieland-Wagner-Inszenierungen, den Ponnelleschen Mozart-Zyklus mit Margaret Price und Birgit Fassbaender, Theo Adam als Hans Sachs, René Kollo als Stolzing und sogar di...

As English Touring Opera brings Gluck’s Orpheus to life in a new production, composer Leo Grant explores the process of adding instrumental and electronic re...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to give away 70,000 free Metropolitan Opera tickets sparked fierce accusations of misplaced priorities.

English National Opera (ENO) has announced a new production of Puccini’s Tosca, opening at the London Coliseum on 30 October 2026

The grim reaper shadows the doomed consumptive Mimì from her first entrance in Welsh National Opera’s production of the much-loved opera

Mamdani’s unlikely opera scheme gets something important right about culture

Letters: Reader Chris Hodgkins proposes a dual‑pillar system that safeguards national institutions while establishing a dedicated body for grassroots arts and music

In besonders ergreifender Weise werden hier die persönlichen Beziehungen der Menschen thematisiert. John Cranko schildert Eugen Onegin nach der Dichtung…

San Francisco Opera opened its 104th season Tuesday with an engrossing and warmly sung performance of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" after a delay due to a musicians strike that was settled after almost.....

The Russian director is at Covent Garden making his British debut directing Wagner’s last opera — and says we must question its Christian influence

The initiative follows similar lotteries for Broadway, the World Cup, and the U.S. Open.

Quinn Kelsey commandingly charts each step in Macbeth’s decline in Louisa Proske’s postapocalyptic setting of Verdi’s opera, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s season.

The company’s world-premiere production is a taut, skillful adaptation of the classic Norman Maclean novella about a stalwart Westerner and his gambling-addicted brother.

Musgrave, whose 1977 opera “Mary, Queen of Scots” is opening at the San Francisco Opera, has spent a long career searching for the “dramatic abstract.”

The opening production of the Metropolitan Opera’s new season is a satisfyingly literary and vividly theatrical take on Verdi’s Shakespearean tragedy

Marin Alsop, the Philharmonia and three outstanding choirs gave the London premiere of Wolfe’s work about the deaths of 146 workers in a New York garment factory fire in 1911

The Deutsche Oper Berlin is staging Karlheinz Stockhausen’s epic “Mittwoch aus Licht” at the start of a new season and a new era.

Geraten Theaterkritiker in Versuchung, sich mit dem Teufel zu verbandeln, um der Neuinszenierung der Historia von D. Johann Fausten gerecht zu werden? Wohl kaum. Erhellende Erkenntnisse bringt schon d...

Opera Montana, a small company that has grown recently, presented its first world premiere, based on one of the state’s most beloved stories.

With San Francisco Opera's orchestra on strike and bass Andrew Potter retiring at 43, Miles Greenberg sees opera's ethics and economics of impracticality at a breaking point

Boston Lyric Opera is about to revive Rossini’s William Tell an irresistible French-language rarity (libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm...