The Threepenny Opera was a kind of Trainspotting for the late 1920s, presenting the middle classes with a grimy, warts-and-all vision of the alienated, nihilistic underclass. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In Depression-era Europe, The Threepenny Opera clearly struck a chord: by the time Weill left Germany for the USA in 1933 it had been translated into eighteen languages and performed several thousand times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ralph’s heart rumbled like a Peking Opera drum; it was the crescendo before — crash of the cymbals! — a hero appeared. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was also the first black person to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera,” Maxine adds. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One of the dancers at the San Francisco Opera House said so, so maybe I'll be a schoolteacher like my aunt and have the whole summer off. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its theater contained more than four thousand seats, twelve hundred more than New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He has also enjoyed considerable success on Broadway, backing such hits as Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera and producing the award-winning Gershwin musical Crazy for You. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Opera composers from all over Europe were drawn to its glitz and glamour, and the prospect of getting rich from musical tragedy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“An opera singer. Allegedly from Germany. At present attached to the San Francisco Opera Company.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

John Gay's Beggar’s Opera was an early example of this, and later the music hall songs of Arthur Lloyd, and Sam Cooke's ‘A Change is Gonna Come’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I had rehearsals most nights at the Worm Creek Opera House, a dilapidated theater near the only stoplight in town. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Gay’s Beggar’s Opera was produced by the impresario John Rich, so the saying around town was that the venture had 'made Rich gay and Gay rich’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Today he’s wearing her hot-pink sweatpants and Phantom of the Opera T-shirt. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Opera, the Vatican thought, was likely to incite immoral behaviour. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He bought her flowers and took her to the Timmerman Opera House down the block. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And they performed with the Utah Festival Opera. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bobby had attended a performance of the French opera with his mother and sister at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York shortly before going to Europe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Opera was the soul of the Italian people as well as its chief off- duty pastime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Dance of the Vampires was an infamous musical from the early two-thousands, starring the original Phantom of the Opera actor, this time as a blood drinker. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Opera singers do not use microphones or any type of amplification technology. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The Threepenny Opera wasn’t intended just as escapist fun in hard times, but also as a piece of biting Marxist satire critiquing the corruption of capitalism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of her career as a professional musician, Abbie Conant was in Italy, playing trombone for the Royal Opera of Turin. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I zone out, watching the skyline, when a man in a Phantom of the Opera mask pulls me out to the dance floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Well," he said, "he seemed to enjoy The Phantom of the Opera so much, I thought he might enjoy..." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 1895, more than three thousand people gathered at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for a grand celebration in honor of Stanton’s eightieth birthday. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was a play that summer at the Worm Creek Opera House, and Shawn and I bought tickets. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a moment they had lifted into the sky and turning north, headed back in the direction of the War Memorial Opera House. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Julie Landsman, who plays principal French horn for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, says that she’s found herself distracted by the position of someone’s mouth. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Harry Cat, who had crept into the Metropolitan Opera House a few times and knew how people acted there, shouted, “Bravo, Chester! Bravo!” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pleasure of your company is requested at the Grand Civic Opera, January ninth, seven p.m. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Opera singers, who begin their training at age five, sleep in beds like this.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had tickets for The Phantom of the Opera. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Constitution Hall was the largest and finest auditorium in Washington, home to the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington Opera Company, and host to distinguished visiting orchestras and concert artists. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I wish he had kept his creepy little face hidden away like in The Phantom of the Opera or something. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We get in line for a theater called the Detroit Opera House. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Farther down the street the Harlem Opera House, which had once shown live performances when Harlem was mostly white, showed older films. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mahler himself was forced out of his post at the Vienna State Opera, notwithstanding his world-class artistic success there, as a result of anti-Semitism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They had to drag her out of the Opera House. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For example, when we got back to the apartment after The Phantom of the Opera, she greeted me as if I were the best friend she had ever had. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I saw The Phantom of the Opera last summer. There was a wonderful chanteuse in that show." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to buy me a fancy dress because we were going to see Phantom of the Opera for her birthday. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A really incredible piece of art about politics is “The Threepenny Opera.” Three Composers on the Necessity and Pitfalls of Political Music 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The Lyric Opera of Chicago, historically one of the most important companies in the United States, has a 2012-13 season of astounding conservatism: a tour through the standards. Opera companies, notably in Seattle, face money trouble 2012-08-09T00:41:03Z

Opera is also the art form that, perhaps more than any other, specializes in heightened emotion, and in finding ways to communicate it. How to survive the next four years on social media? Opera can help. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

In addition to heading Los Angeles Opera, he served as general director at Washington Opera from 2003-2011. AP: US opera union probe finds Placido Domingo abused power 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

In January, when covering Opera Philadelphia’s new virtual channel, OperaPhila.tv, I noted that because of the company’s strong roster of composers, there was reason to be hopeful about its winter-spring season of short digital commissions. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

At a group-therapy session, the performers introduce themselves as Paris Opera Ballet dancers, and there are allusions to the company’s hierarchy, and a foray into the ornate foyer de la danse behind the stage. Love and Death in Paris, With an Assist From Star-Crossed Verona 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

I don't see why there couldn't be a closer relationship between the BBC and this vast performance network – us, the Crucible, the Royal Exchange, Opera North, Broadsides, Live Theatre, the Royal Ballet, everyone! BBC has 'Downton Abbey ratings mentality', says National Theatre chief 2013-03-07T10:26:35Z

New York City’s opera event of the fall — an adaptation of “The Hours” having its staged premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in November — started with a pitch from Renée Fleming. ‘Three Divas, What Could Be Better?’ Making ‘The Hours’ Operatic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Bruce Ross, an attorney who represents San Diego Opera, said the attorney general's letter was sent to the opera's former president, Karen Cohn, who resigned last month at a contentious board meeting. Newly reborn San Diego Opera now facing state audit 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles Opera started the trend in 1998 with Picker's cantankerous children's opera, "Fantastic Mr. Fox." Long Beach Opera puts its own spin on 'Thérèse Raquin' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

The Vienna State Opera was closed for almost a week. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

They played at Madison Square Garden, Metropolitan Opera House, and even on the steps of New York City Hall for the mayor, he said. EXCHANGE: Joliet band was a New York hit in 1936 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

She was especially fond of trips to the Metropolitan Opera. Cara De Silva, Food Historian Who Preserved Jewish Recipes, Dies at 83 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Metamorphosis Titian 2012” will be performed Tuesday and Friday at the Royal Opera House in London; roh.org.uk. Dance Review: ‘Metamorphosis Titian 2012’ at the Royal Ballet 2012-07-16T21:26:23Z

This summer the Santa Fe Opera will present “Life Is a Dream” in a fully staged and costumed production. Santa Fe Opera to Stage Lewis Spratlan?s ?Life Is a Dream? 2010-04-11T21:56:00Z

Ann Ziff, the noted philanthropist and chair of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, is adding another entry to her roster of Los Angeles board positions. Ann Ziff joins board of Los Angeles Opera 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

His most celebrated work thus far has been the shockingly cannibalistic operatic collaboration with Vavrek, "Dog Days," which Los Angeles Opera presented last June. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

“X” had its world premiere at New York City Opera in 1986. Met Opera to stage Anthony Davis’ `X’ on Malcolm X in 2023 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

After the success of his first work for Opera Theater of St. Louis — “Champion,” in 2013 — Mr. Blanchard was asked by the company to come back for more. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The tenor Roberto Alagna is stepping in for an ailing Joseph Calleja in the title role of “Faust,” by Gounod, at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday evening, the Met said Monday afternoon. ArtsBeat: A Last-Minute Substitution for 'Faust' 2012-01-09T22:22:51Z

The Metropolitan Opera placed a big bet on the young Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, casting her in five productions far into the future before she had even sung her first note in New York. The Met Opera’s Newest Star Returns, on the Small Screen 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Next season, Seattle Opera will stage “Porgy and Bess,” written specifically for black performers. Seattle Opera’s ‘Aida’ spurs discussion of ways black people are misrepresented — or not represented — in opera 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director 2010-10-25T21:30:00Z

Later, however, as the band takes to the Opera House stage, I see for myself how it works. Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter: 'Now we can concentrate on album number nine' 2013-06-12T00:27:11Z

On Friday, Simon Rattle passed that test triumphantly in the performance he led at the Metropolitan Opera, when Robert Carsen’s 2017 production of “Rosenkavalier” returned to the house, with a winning cast. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

Back in 1989, he starred as Mack the Knife in a revival of “The Threepenny Opera”; he and the production were savaged by Frank Rich in the New York Times. Sting, the tireless troubadour

Prior to the Liceu, Scheppelmann was the first director general of the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman, and before that, director of artistic operations at Washington National Opera in Washington, D.C. Seattle Opera names Christina Scheppelmann as its new leader 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The Paris Opera is waiting for the results of an external inquiry into racial diversity, commissioned by its new director, Alexander Neef, before setting a firm policy. Black Ballerina, Playing a Swan, Says She Was Told to Color Her Skin 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Cedel, fresh from being named one of six winners in the Metropolitan Opera's 60th annual National Council Auditions earlier this month, played the comical servant Nerbulone with a lustrous, booming voice and charismatic appeal. Baroque opera in burlesque house 2013-03-21T16:06:09Z

And her well-publicized quarrels with general managers and co-stars — including Luciano Pavarotti and the Metropolitan Opera impresario Rudolf Bing — likewise fueled the idea that she had an irrepressible temperament that destined her for the stage. Renata Scotto Spun an Actor’s Insight Into Vocal Gold 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z

This week's production of Sugar at HMP Send is more than an admirable undertaking by Pimlico Opera. Why prisons hold playwrights captive 2011-02-23T15:27:28Z

The Vienna State Opera confirmed the death Wednesday, saying it is mourning the loss of a "legendary artist who shaped not only the Vienna State Opera but also the entire opera world." Vienna opera singer Jurinac dies at 90 2011-11-23T11:24:08Z

While Aaron Copland’s “The Tender Land,” which received a rare revival on Friday and Saturday from Chelsea Opera, was first performed by City Opera in 1954, it wasn’t originally conceived for that company. Copeland’s ‘The Tender Land’ Is Revived by Chelsea Opera 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Just four days after the attacks, New York City Opera returned. For the Met Opera, the Pandemic Could Be a Necessary Reset 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Her Tosca arrived at the Metropolitan Opera last March, and on Tuesday, she revisited the title role of Puccini’s tragedy in David McVicar’s attractive, if stolid, production. Review: ‘Tosca’ Returns, Defined by Its Quiet Moments 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

It is a slender instrument that last year was occasionally inaudible in the 4,000-seat Metropolitan Opera when he sang in Handel’s “Rodelinda.” Music Review: Andreas Scholl and Tamar Halperin at Lincoln Center 2012-12-10T22:47:29Z

Now, with the Toronto run behind her, Ms. Goerke is bringing “Götterdämmerung” to Houston Grand Opera on Saturday, April 22. After a Soprano’s Crisis, a Brünnhilde Is Born 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Their home base, shared with the Opera, was the Alexander Theater, a mini piece of Petersburg, built by Russians in 1879. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Last month, a new production of Adams' opera, "The Death of Klinghoffer", provoked demonstrations outside the Metropolitan Opera by New Yorkers angry at what they believed to be the sympathetic portrayal of terrorism. Exclusive look at 'Other Mary' opera 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

“Così” was long regarded as a wanly charming diversion, and even today productions like the Metropolitan Opera’s emphasize its picturesqueness over its painfulness. Christopher Alden?s ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at New York City Opera 2011-09-18T01:15:08Z

This contrasts with the United States: These days, it is more common for the Metropolitan Opera or the Lyric Opera of Chicago to present an attention-generating world premiere than to dust off a forgotten work. Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

In 1996 she sang the role in a concert performance at Carnegie Hall with the Opera Orchestra of New York and earned an ecstatic ovation. Ren?e Fleming With the Met and Chicago?s Lyric Opera Company 2012-01-27T19:30:47Z

Later this month he is scheduled to sing in “Macbeth” at the Vienna State Opera. Plácido Domingo Leaves Los Angeles Opera Amid Sex Harassment Inquiry 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Carsen said that Mr. Maestri — who sang the role when the production was seen earlier at the Royal Opera House in London and at La Scala — was uniquely suited to the role. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z

The young Jackie Chan failed his first year at the primary school, so his parents sent him to a Peking Opera School, where his spent most time on physical training. Jackie Chan says he's 'numb' to beautiful women, admits beating son 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

It took a few tries for Benjamin Bernheim to make his Metropolitan Opera debut. A Tenor’s Met Opera Debut, Long Delayed, Is Worth the Wait 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

He started the season this month as Don Ottavio in a revival production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the Royal Opera House in London. An American Tenor Is ‘at Home Everywhere’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

In time, Ginger and Marina began winning or placing highly in international competitions, and caught the attention of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, giving them a big boost. Sister acts: Musical siblings share the spotlight at Seattle Opera, Meany Theater 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

They came at a moment of transition for him in more ways then one: a week later he would announce that he was resigning as music director of the Paris Opera. Gustavo Dudamel in New York: Selfies, Hugs and Mahler 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

The trio has been commissioned to create the new works by ROH2, the Royal Opera House's contemporary arm, and the run opens this week in the company's smaller Linbury Studio Theater. Police drummer, Monty Python comic turn to opera 2011-04-05T15:44:40Z

In front of large crowds at venues like the Sydney Opera House, Griffin performed three-hour-plus shows detailing her experience at the intersection of free speech and partisan rage. Kathy Griffin Is Trying to Get Back on the D-List 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Perhaps unexpectedly, given that he is best known for leading the most familiar works in the repertory, in 2019 he became the artistic director of Opera Rara, a London-based company devoted to underperformed titles. A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

The change has been even more dramatic at the Metropolitan Opera, which now sells fewer than a fifth of its tickets to subscribers. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

For the first time, the theatre at Sydney Opera House is playing host to a Broadway musical. Sydney Opera House goes Broadway with South Pacific 2012-08-07T21:00:01Z

Opera singers spoke of attempted assaults in dressing rooms or in the wings during performances. Assaults in dressing rooms. Groping during lessons. Classical musicians reveal a profession rife with harassment. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

She wore one of the dresses to a gala this past summer at the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco. How About an Armani for Your Aria? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

“I Am an Opera” is what many imagine opera to be: more style than substance. Theater Review: ‘I Am an Opera,’ by Joseph Keckler 2013-04-25T00:14:49Z

He set forth his ideas in general terms: to support Ms. Lefèvre's policy of bringing contemporary choreographers to work with the Opera, but to focus strongly on new classical work. ArtsBeat: At Press Conference, Benjamin Millepied Responds to Questions About New Paris Opera Ballet Post 2013-01-24T19:49:32Z

Now, however, New York City Opera — the other resident company at the David H. Koch Theater — has ceded this period in exchange for relief from making building payments. Dance Review: Leaps and Bounds of At-Home Season 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z

Some European companies, including the Vienna State Opera, which gets a great deal of government money, sell nearly all their seats. Not Over Till Overtime’s Due? Met Labor Strife Bares Secrets 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Last year, the Hudson Opera House reopened in Hudson after extensive renovation. Flipping for Dance in the Catskills 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

For many, the Royal Opera House summons visions of the world’s elite, sipping Champagne and clad in formal attire. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

And the audience stood in the Howard Gilman Opera House, applauding and cheering through multiple curtain calls, until some of the performers’ drawn faces softened into small smiles. Dance Review: Swimming Through Bausch?s World 2010-09-30T21:15:00Z

Now some of Ukraine’s leading artists, with the help of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, are uniting to use music to express opposition to Russia’s continuing attacks. Denouncing War, Ukrainian Musicians Unite for a World Tour 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

Seattle Opera plans a free, "Magic Flute"-themed open house on Saturday, to coincide with the opening of the Mozart opera. Free 'Flute-apalooza' at McCaw on Saturday 2011-05-07T00:05:52Z

The state of Mr. Levine’s health in recent years has become a burning issue for two major musical institutions: the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. James Levine Says He?s Ready to Work Again 2010-09-18T00:31:00Z

The operas — from 15 presenters including the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House in London and the Aix-en-Provence Festival — will be streamed live on the website of the Opera Platform, at www.theoperaplatform.eu. 15 European Opera Houses to Offer Free Online Streaming 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The Seattle Opera production is a unique hybrid of the opera Berlioz wrote, plus new scenes lifted from the Shakespearean play “Much Ado About Nothing,” on which the opera is based. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

At institutions like Jacob’s Pillow, Santa Fe Opera and the Field Museum, most of the processes she lists in her expanded “decolonization rider” are already in progress. A Rift Over Art and Activism Ripples Through the Performance World 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

“He’s a Black boy in a red hoodie going out into the snow alone,” said Joel Thompson, the composer of the work, which premieres at Houston Grand Opera on Thursday. ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Cinderella returns soon to Seattle Opera with a song in her heart, and on her lips. Cinderella gets to go to the ball — in Seattle Opera production 2013-01-03T20:22:20Z

When Mr. Cuénod finally took the stage at the Metropolitan Opera House, “Turandot” seemed an unlikely vehicle to bring him there. Obituaries: Hugues Cu?nod Dies at 108; Versatile, Light-Voiced Tenor 2010-12-08T04:29:00Z

At the start of the pandemic, the director of the Lyon Opera Ballet, Julie Guibert, decided to initiate a project; the creation of 30 solos for the 30 company dancers. Lyon Dance Biennale Begins, Reduced but Unbowed 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

Record rainfall turned parts of the 710 into an underwater expedition for many on their way to that afternoon’s Long Beach Opera season-opening performance of Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen.” A gamble pays off: Long Beach Opera transports 1692 'Fairy Queen' to modern-day Vegas 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

“We are doing the opposite of airlines,” said Michael Smallwood, the technical director at the Lyric Opera, referring to the practice of cramming more narrow seats onto planes. ‘The Opposite of Airlines’: When Larger Audiences Require Fewer Seats 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

“Plácido Domingo has been a dynamic creative force in the life of LA Opera and the artistic culture of Los Angeles for more than three decades,” the company said in a statement. In wake of harassment allegations against Plácido Domingo, companies step back 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

This one is the Sydney Opera House by comparison. In Sanitation-and-Salt Complex in TriBeCa, a Salutary Lesson in Urban Responsibility 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Rather than shying away from the controversy, Seattle Opera has made an effort to foster dialogue around the issues. Cultural controversy swirls around Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Though the Royal Opera warned of "extreme language, drug abuse and sexual content," there's little on stage to shock, some rough language aside. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z

His opera debut came at the Graz Opera in 1984, in a production of Donizetti’s farce “Viva la Mamma.” Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera is in the midst of acrimonious labor negotiations. Music Review: The Met Orchestra Ends Its Season at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-12T22:37:50Z

And beyond the church, that voice won him moments of more secular glory, as when he was engaged as the shepherd boy in a production of Puccini’s “Tosca” at the Rome Opera. The Great Tenor Hope (Just Ask Him) 2010-10-14T16:47:00Z

For more than 30 years, the known quantity of attending Puccini’s “La Bohème” at the Metropolitan Opera has been Franco Zeffirelli’s colorful, minutely detailed and popular production. Opera Review: Zeffirelli’s ‘La Bohème’ Staging Still Elicits Sighs and Awe 2014-01-15T22:43:27Z

Seattle Opera’s “Crescendo for Racial Justice” starts at noon and will feature a panel including conductor Kazem Abdullah; Matthew Ozawa, opera stage director; and Naomi André, Seattle Opera scholar in residence. Seattle Opera, Early Music Seattle holding virtual town halls discussing racial justice in classical music 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

So I am looking forward to the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal.” Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z

The company toggles between full-length story ballets needed for its annual Metropolitan Opera House season, and a more varied, if scattered, repertory for its fall season. Susan Jaffe to Be Next Artistic Director at American Ballet Theater 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

“It’s funny how things slowly trickle through,” Ms. Marston said over coffee at the Royal Opera House in London recently. A Ballet ‘Jane Eyre’? Reader, She Dances With Him 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Last year, it started rolling out a new “Ring” cycle that is expected to play at the Metropolitan Opera starting in 2025. Britain’s Major Opera Companies Suffer in Arts Spending Shake-Up 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

I was curious to see if a fresh cast would alter my take on this dull, jumbled production, introduced at the English National Opera in London in 2011. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Chairs at the Met 2013-12-06T22:52:05Z

“We really believe that masking and proof of vaccine is giving people confidence to come back,” said Kristina Murti, Seattle Opera’s director of marketing and communications. What you need to know about mask and vaccine requirements to get into Seattle-area arts and music events this spring 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Just think of the case of Yorgos Loukos, the former director of the Lyon Opera Ballet: It took six years and two court trials for pregnancy discrimination before he was fired earlier this year. In Europe’s Theaters, Outsiders Tread a Tricky Path 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

In Chicago, he’s played at a surprising variety of venues, including the Civic Opera House and Fourth Presbyterian Church. Music Match: If You Like Roy Orbison . . . 2012-09-25T22:27:52Z

The Metropolitan Opera had to scramble to find a replacement for its “Magic Flute” conductor after she tested positive for the coronavirus last month. Scrambling but Undaunted, the Met Opera Sings Through Omicron 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

On many levels, the Fantastic Mr Fox the English Touring Opera will stage is a different animal to the one that first skulked around LA. Fox pop: English Touring Opera gives Roald Dahl back to the kids 2011-02-17T22:26:00Z

Holten, already a much liked and admired figure at the opera house, was artistic director of the Royal Danish Opera in his native Copenhagen, but also has an international reputation as a director. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z

The Washington National Opera's season at the Kennedy Center will underscore its vision to embrace American and nontraditional productions. Kennedy Center to host hip-hop festival in 2014 2013-03-05T16:55:17Z

Those legends include well-known artists such as the choreographer George Balanchine, the opera singer and administrator Beverly Sills, the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, and the Metropolitan Opera’s longtime music director James Levine. Lincoln Center Will Create a Performing Arts Hall of Fame 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

It is a warm and rosy Dolly that Buckley presents to us in the Kennedy Center Opera House, one with whom an audience quickly seals an emotional bond. Review | Betty Buckley joins the ‘Hello, Dolly’ parade. And the pleasure of it doesn’t pass us by. 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

A spokeswoman for the Washington National Opera did not immediately respond to a message seeking elaboration. Pl?cido Domingo to Step Down 2010-09-27T22:09:00Z

Angelenos loved it when it reached Los Angeles Opera the following year. 'Florencia en el Amazonas' a culture clash solved by orchestra 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

“Opera is an excessive art form populated by excessive people,” Mr. MacNeil said. Cornell MacNeil, Verdi Baritone at the Met, Dies at 88 2011-07-18T03:30:33Z

Often, this reaction is provoked by images of the body itself: The Phantom of the Opera’s disfigured half-face; the flesh of Frankenstein’s monster fixed together with nails; the extreme anaemia of Dracula. Midsommar's ableism resurrects the dark history of eugenics-inspired horror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

A: I was speaking to the Trilogy Opera Company, a primarily African American opera company based in Newark, about an opera. ‘The Central Park Five,’ in song: composer Anthony Davis on his new opera 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Opera stars have happily crossed into the territory of America’s indigenous form of opera, musical theater. Deborah Voigt, Meet Ethel Merman 2010-07-22T19:27:00Z

“Cycles,” which felt turgid when I heard it in a voice-and-piano version three years ago, bloomed in Opera Philadelphia’s presentation of the original instrumentation, which adds a couple of energizing strings and a wailing clarinet. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

Higdon composed the work for 11 instruments, and Opera Philadelphia hosted workshops in March 2018 and last October, according to the composer. Higdon opera for Philadelphia to have 3 different endings 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Since this iteration of Opera on Tap was a birthday party of sorts for the Blue Moon, I was betting we would hear “Happy Birthday” and we did. Go to a dive bar, drink beer — listen to opera? 2 writers experience Opera on Tap at Blue Moon | Art Outings 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Yes, it’s the world’s most popular opera, but I’ll never complain about seeing it, and Seattle Opera’s heartfelt productions have never felt like they’re just throwing it on the stage for the box office’s sake. 8 Seattle-area classical music picks for fall 2021 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

At the Los Angeles Opera in April “Die Gezeichneten” became the first Schreker opera to receive a stage production in the Western hemisphere. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z

And last year’s release of the performance of “Die Tote Stadt” by the Bavarian State Opera gives those not ready to return to the opera house another at-home viewing option. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Glover has worked with the Royal Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival in England, the Berlin State Opera, the Royal Danish Opera and other major houses. Review: ‘Magic Flute’ Welcomes Children Back to the Met 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera said that the phone calls yielded about a third of its contributions of less than $25,000 a year from individuals. Who’s That Annoying Telemarketer on the Phone? It’s the Opera 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The center also announced the 2011-12 seasons of the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera, companies that have separate boards but are under the Kennedy Center’s administrative and financial umbrella. ArtsBeat: Kennedy Center Announces 2011-12 season 2011-03-08T17:22:25Z

But the undying contradiction of "Threepenny Opera" is that it bites the hand of the politically blasé bourgeoise while also tickling it. Review: Mack the Knife would approve of Seattle Shakes' sharp 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-22T04:48:04Z

A governor's commission on Asian Pacific American affairs said Monday that Opera Philadelphia is modifying or removing narrow drooping Fu Manchu mustaches on several characters. Opera company revising 'Turandot' over Asian depictions 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

With dramatic piano chords benefitting "The Phantom of the Opera," she wanders in the woods. "See" recap: Manure, rain and still no war 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

Hooked into the foyer of the Sydney Opera House, she said, it seemed to do the trick: “Everyone wanted to give it a bit of a hug.” Clitbait: 10 things you didn't know about the clitoris 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

A version of this article appears in print on March 8, 2014, on page C1 of the with the headline: A Rare Opera Whose Dance Is In Step With Its Drama. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Prince Igor’ Aims to Integrate Movement and Storytelling 2014-03-07T23:01:11Z

When I graduated, I found myself at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico, as an intern. Black Panther Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter on Three Decades of Dressing Superheroes 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Gergiev has added to its renown through his intense array of foreign conducting gigs, including being principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for a decade. Mariinsky celebrates 150 years, looks to future 2010-09-17T02:16:00Z

SYDNEY, Australia — In its new production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," Opera Australia shows how a classic work can be reset in the modern world without violating the spirit of the original. Modern 'Figaro,' timeless 'Turandot' in Sydney 2012-03-11T05:02:10Z

The Metropolitan Opera fired the conductor James Levine, who had shaped the company since the 1970s, after it concluded that he had engaged in sexual misconduct. The 10 Biggest Upheavals of Lincoln Center’s Tumultuous Year 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

San Diego Opera announced staff reductions in May, with the laying off of 13 people. San Diego Opera cutting costs as part of effort to achieve stability 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Freud resigned to lead the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Houston opera conductor named new music director 2011-05-26T03:52:08Z

Ms. Chauviré studied at the Paris Opera Ballet’s school, and for that reason she was often regarded as a product of specifically French training. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The Met also said it would construct its own sets and costumes for next season’s new production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” rather than share them with Moscow’s Bolshoi Opera, as originally planned. Anna Netrebko out of Met Opera over her support of Putin 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

In the case of the Sydney Opera House, the concrete used for the ribs of the soaring, sail-like shells needs to be extensively researched. Getty Foundation launches effort to conserve modern architectural gems 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Patrons scan the Wall of Fame at the Metropolitan Opera. A Photographic History of the Metropolitan Opera, on the Wall 2012-05-13T00:23:12Z

Opera patrons may not have approved of Carmen's morals, but they were enthralled by the sensational theatrics, sexual sparks, the brilliant melding of classical composition and Spanish folk music — and still are. 'Carmen': Quite a woman at Seattle Opera 2011-10-05T22:47:04Z

“The Cry of Clytaemnestra,” after receiving its premiere at Indiana in 1980, left the confines of academia to receive performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the San Francisco Opera. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

The director of the Vienna State Opera, Dominique Meyer, said in a statement that Mr. Botha “was one of the best tenors worldwide.” Johan Botha, Operatic Tenor, Dies at 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Other Mackintosh productions, notably Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera and Cats, have done likewise. Betty Blue Eyes: can Cameron Mackintosh make this pig musical fly? 2011-04-12T14:45:08Z

The revival of Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur recently sold out at the Royal Opera – proof that there is real appetite for bold, new and supposedly "difficult" new work on the lyric stage. With George Benjamin's Written on Skin, British opera takes a bold step into the future 2013-03-11T15:52:00Z

And Mr. Biden appeared at the Grand Opera House for political events with Barack Obama, spoke on a tribute video for the theater, and in 2018 spoke onstage during his “American Promise” book tour. Joe Biden and the Arts: No R.B.G. but a Loyal Promoter of Culture 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

She was uncertain about the future of a planned opera at the Royal Opera House, she said. Cultural Life Is Back in Europe. In the U.K., They Talk of Collapse. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Because of the pandemic, it has been three years since the company has had a spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Two legends will share the stage on Friday when Los Angeles Opera hosts a live conversation between Broadway diva Patti LuPone and operatic mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne. Patti LuPone, Marilyn Horne in conversation about 'Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Emotional depth and belief in the characters run through the English National Opera’s first-ever production of “Porgy and Bess,” which opened here earlier this month, directed by James Robinson. Review: A Vital and Sweeping ‘Porgy and Bess’ Debuts in London 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

Nowhere is the tension between labor and management more acute than at the Metropolitan Opera, the largest performing arts organization in the nation. Even When the Music Returns, Pandemic Pay Cuts Will Linger 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

She was a riveting Lady Macbeth in a modern-dress, 2014 Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's version of Shakespeare's play, where she was a convincingly desperate housewife from hell. Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov raise roof in power operatic performance at the Broad Stage 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Anderson was a celebrated contralto and Philadelphia native who in 1955 became the first black soloist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Bon Jovi to be honored for humanitarian work 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Realizing the inevitable weight of expectations, the San Francisco Opera enlisted a team of creative heavyweights, all of Asian descent, to create the $3 million production. An American Opera Company Adapts China’s ‘War and Peace’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Anderson, the first African-American soloist to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Grammy lifetime achievement award. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The State Opera’s programming is extensive — it has held more performances than any major opera company in recent years, by some counts — and inventive. Hungary Turned Far Right. That’s Meant Millions for Its Opera. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Seattle Opera has thus cast three young men as Miles: two on rotation through the part, and another to cover for either should illness strike or someone’s voice start to crack. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

The San Francisco Opera announced Wednesday that its music director, Nicola Luisotti, would step down when his contract is up at the end of next season. Music Director of San Francisco Opera to Step Down 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Opera Lounge, a late-night evening of performance on Jan. 19, for example, mixes extracts from classic Russian operas sung by opera ensemble members, with D.J. sessions. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

But at City Opera, the work was set in a grim public park, and Mr. Alden’s antic, enigmatic direction made its impact in relation to the specificity of that location. Dudamel Leads Mozart’s Opera With a Zaha Hadid Set 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

The falling chandelier in “The Phantom of the Opera” was based on a real event. An Opera House Inspired by More Than Music 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Angela Gheorghiu, the Romanian soprano, was singing the title role in Puccini’s “Tosca” in a starry production at the Vienna State Opera on Saturday when she very conspicuously missed her entrance in the third act. ‘Tosca’ Pauses When a Diva Misses Her Cue on Vienna Stage 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

There are double nominations for Scottish Opera, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the London Contemporary Orchestra, which is just six years old. Barenboim heads up RPS nominations 2014-04-15T16:04:04Z

"Bringing the Peking Opera to the United States not only provides an important cultural exchange, but also strengthens the China-U.S. relationship," he added. China's Peking Opera company marks anniversary with U.S. tour 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

City Opera officials did not respond to requests for comment on Monday, nor did Lincoln Center officials. City Opera Departure Brings Questions 2011-05-23T22:17:06Z

In the end, he said, City Opera simply could not afford to stay in its costly Lincoln Center home — and Lincoln Center did not offer the help that might have made it possible. Reynold Levy’s New Book Names Names, Including the Met and Peter Gelb 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

He conducts opera at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany and the Vienna State Opera. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

As music director of the State Opera and principal conductor for life of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle, Barenboim is a towering figure in the European cultural scene. Daniel Barenboim, Star Conductor, Withdraws from ‘Ring’ Cycle in Berlin 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera’s introduction of Sunday matinees this season already seems to be popular with audiences. Review: Mark Morris’s Dancing ‘Orfeo’ Returns to the Met Opera 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Doctors told Mr. Pappano that "he needs a complete break from the extreme physical demands that conducting puts on his elbow," according to the Royal Opera. ArtsBeat: Tendinitis Sidelines a Royal Opera Conductor 2012-11-12T20:44:18Z

The Naples-born conductor said he decided to quit the Rome Opera “with the greatest regret, after long and troubled reflection.” Muti quits as Rome Opera conductor 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

She was speaking prior to the ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday night. VIDEO: JK Rowling: 'Bafta honour is amazing' 2011-02-13T19:06:02Z

He's performed all over the U.S., including New York City, and recently toured with the Canadian Opera Company. Performing artists stay fit between auditions 2010-08-17T16:10:00Z

Penderecki's "Paradise Lost" received its world premiere at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1978, and he presented his Symphony No. 7, "Seven Gates of Jerusalem," with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2000. Krzysztof Penderecki's enticing program at Grant Park 2011-07-17T07:00:00Z

The music of Gregory Spears — whose sensitive “Castor and Patience” was commissioned by Cincinnati Opera and premiered here on Thursday evening — is the opposite. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Q: You worked as a recital pianist in the 1980s for the New York City Opera which filed this month for bankruptcy. A Minute With:-Royal Opera's Pappano: "No idea I'd be a conductor" 2013-10-16T13:02:56Z

At the City Opera celebration, he was generous with the hand kisses he gave musicians onstage. Plácido Domingo Defies the Gravity of Age 2014-03-07T15:00:03Z

“I have loved the intellectual approach that Stefan has brought to the Opera,” Mr. Jordan said. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sharon will be the second artistic leader of Michigan Opera Theater, a relatively nimble company with a budget of about $15 million. An Operatic Innovator Takes On Detroit 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Music critics fawned, the Metropolitan Opera held downtown recitals, and a new generation of listeners fell for Stravinsky. In unusual New York City venues — such as restaurants — the taste for classical music expands 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

He still plans to appear next spring at the Metropolitan Opera House, where, incidentally, he proposed last spring to his longtime girlfriend, the dancer Gillian Murphy. Adventure Beyond the South Pole 2011-08-21T04:00:04Z

Best of times Joining the board of the Royal Opera House, an institution for which she has an intense passion, in 1990. Vivien Duffield: The women who thinks it's better to give 2011-03-27T00:06:25Z

A sizzling new production of that opera, directed by Nataki Garrett and conducted by Abdullah at Portland Opera this spring, is streaming on demand from that company’s website through May 20. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

That explains the new look that will accompany the iconic Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganza “The Phantom of the Opera” when the national touring production arrives at the Kennedy Center on July 13. Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

I walked 50 yards to the open square in front of the Vienna State Opera — arguably the greatest opera house in Europe. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

In 2003, Mr. Nelsons became principal conductor of the Latvian National Opera, where he met Ms. Opolais, who was a member of the ensemble. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

One certainly seems to have impressed Pierre Audi, artistic director of the Netherlands Opera, who soon afterwards commissioned the composer to write a work for the company. Michel van der Aa: 'I'm an art omnivore' 2010-04-29T22:20:00Z

The 158-room hotel wraps around a scenic spit of the Rocks opposite the Sydney Opera House. Weekend in Sydney 2010-04-08T21:06:00Z

“Opera” doesn’t have the tight, essential structure, the way of cleaving movement to music that characterizes the earlier ballets. Dance Review: Choreographer Works Magic With Latest Ballet 2013-12-20T13:13:20Z

The dramatic efficacy of text and music is certainly compromised in the astonishing hubbub of the Café Momus scene in Franco Zeffirelli’s staging of Act II of Puccini’s “La Bohème” at the Metropolitan Opera. Opera Review: Anita Hartig Stars in ‘La Bohème’ at the Met 2014-03-24T21:46:13Z

In “ROBOT,” which begins performances on Tuesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House, seven robots share the stage with eight dancers and a 10-piece mechanical orchestra, activated by the dancers. In ‘ROBOT,’ Blanca Li Uses Machines to Celebrate the Body 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Opera singer Cristina Ramos shocked the judges on Spain’s Got Talent when her melodious classical aria segued into a belting performance of “Highway to Hell.” Opera Singer Rocks Out to AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' on Spain's Got Talent 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

With her father, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, in the audience, the British designer held her Paris Fashion Week show in the Palais Garnier, the ornate home of the Paris National Opera. Sustainable fashion to the fore at Stella McCartney's Paris show 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

The awards were created in 2005 by Opera News, whose circulation of more than 100,000 makes it the world's most popular magazine in the field. NY opera awards show features Broadway stars 2011-04-18T00:31:04Z

He was onstage for the first “Live From the Metropolitan Opera” telecast and the company debuts of both Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo, who will celebrate his own 50th anniversary next season. After 50 Years at the Met Opera, Paul Plishka Retires (Again) 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

From there she won a three-year scholarship to New York's Juilliard School, where she studied with English ballet choreographer Antony Tudor and performed with both American modern dance groups and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Step-by-step guide to dance: Pina Bausch/Tanztheater Wuppertal 2010-03-30T11:13:00Z

On Saturday nights my flamboyant friend Paolo, who taught Italian, would throw roses to the streetwalkers as we drove through the red-light district to the Opera House. Perspective | What is it about France? A book lover revisits his past and celebrates the present 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera recently announced that it would be mounting a pastiche opera next season, but Opera Feroce proudly wants you to know it beat the big guys to the punch. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z

From a mixed reception at its 1987 premiere in Houston, it has gone on to triumphs around the world, including last year at the Metropolitan Opera. 'Nixon' headlines SF Opera's summer season 2012-06-15T18:03:09Z

In just under a couple of weeks' time, Birmingham Opera Company will stage a world premiere of this six-hour opera; it is the only Stockhausen work never to have been performed in its entirety. The last unperformed Stockhausen opera lifts off 2012-08-08T18:00:01Z

Leaders of its pack: the premiere adaptation of the weepy “Beaches” and the stylishly grim Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill “Threepenny Opera,” with seven nominations each. ‘Helen’ meets ‘Hayes’ in newly expanded theater awards 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Two bits of information stuck with me as I experienced the closing performance of “Butterfly,” Heartbeat Opera’s chamber adaptation of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, on Sunday afternoon. The Trailblazing Efforts of “Indie Opera” 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

He has another full “Ring” cycle this September at the Berlin State Opera, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, and is planning to sing it in Dresden, Germany, in a future season with Christian Thielemann. A New Wotan Reigns in the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

I should actually look like the Phantom of the Opera with just two holes in the front of my face. Belinda Carlisle: ‘After my cocaine use, I can’t believe I’m not dead’ 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

So after writing “American Anthem,” he played it for Ms. Graves, an opera star, whom he knew from his occasional work at the Metropolitan Opera. He Called His Song ‘American Anthem.’ It Actually Became One. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

The Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera, these are institutions in which we lead the world. Opera house told to make savings 2012-07-27T14:40:34Z

Anthea is a graphic designer who once worked for the English National Opera. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

He performed at the Berlin State Opera in his native East Germany and at Milan’s La Scala, as well as a 25-year run at the famed Salzburg festival. German opera singer, conductor Schreier dies at 84 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

His appointment comes two months after the release of a report on discrimination and diversity at the Paris Opera. Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Conductor, Will Lead Paris Opera 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

It was danced by Aurélie Dupont, the Paris Opera ballerina now becoming that institution’s director of dance: She was sweet, polite and charming but largely devoid of the tension crucial to Graham style. Review: Looking for Martha Graham in Her Company’s Dance Steps 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

"Montpellier on strike today, all of us on strike tomorrow," read a banner outside Paris Opera Bastille this weekend, where protesters delayed the start of the Verdi opera "La Traviata." Disgruntled performers threaten French summer festivals 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, 212-362-6000, metopera.org; very limited availability on Dec. 31. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Its big attractions, including the Sydney Opera House and the Taronga Zoo, are accessible by ferry from Watsons Bay Boutique Hotel, a popular 19th-century inn that was fully renovated in 2013. Family Lodging for Part-Time Nature Seekers 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

The Opera Theatre of St. Louis is in its 39th season. In 39th season, Opera Theater of St. Louis shows good health, new work

Almost as soon as she entered the international scene, she became a star at the Royal Opera House in London, a home base in those early years. Angela Gheorghiu, Diva of the Old School, Is Back at the Met 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

While Opera North's recent production failed for Clements because the ghosts simply weren't evident enough. The Turn of the Screw - in links 2011-08-08T14:46:00Z

British Youth Opera's annual season at the Peacock theatre in early September always feels like a last rose of summer. In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La boh?me/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

Three years later, he is back in London, heading the Australian Ballet’s first international tour since the pandemic, and its first appearance at the Royal Opera House in 35 years. David Hallberg’s New Job: Decision Maker 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Taking a rather more moderate approach, Welsh National Opera settled for staging an opera: Lohengrin. Lohengrin; Ariadne auf Naxos; La Donna del Lago – review 2013-05-25T23:05:56Z

One such artist was Paul Appleby, a tenor who appears regularly at the Metropolitan Opera. Opera’s ‘Island of Misfit Toys’ Takes Its Biggest Stage Yet 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

The bright-toned, openhearted tenor Matthew Polenzani, who returned to his native New York in recital at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday, rose through the ranks at the Metropolitan Opera the old-fashioned way. Matthew Polenzani of the Met Opera in a Solo Recital at Alice Tully 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Models strutted under the shimmering mosaic ceilings in the corridors of Paris’ Opera Garnier. Tie-dye jumpsuits for spring at Stella McCartney fashion show 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

But Costanzo, a member of the enterprising collective American Modern Opera Company and the recent recipient of a $150,000 Mellon Foundation grant to support interdisciplinary collaboration, said he doesn’t network for its own sake. A Singer Brings His Authentic Self to the Philharmonic 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Daniel Barenboim, 80, the longtime music director of the Berlin State Opera, had just announced he would step down at the end of the month because of his declining health. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

“Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments” is an entertaining, sometimes poetic and unapologetically didactic concoction made up of song, science lectures and demonstrations. Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

The Houston Grand Opera was among the first companies to adopt projected titles for foreign-language productions, helping to establish a standard of approachability that even the Met grudgingly accepted. Houston Grand Opera Holds to Its Promise of Excellence 2011-02-09T16:15:56Z

The Opera House stage is the perfect size, a little more compact, and its dimensions help to intensify the action and the visual effect. New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Channing has been a fixture on stage, TV and film since making her debut as an undergrad in a Harvard University production of "The Threepenny Opera." Stockard Channing eyes 'Other Desert' return 2011-11-26T03:01:04Z

An earlier version of this obituary misspelled the surname of the composer of the opera “Ashmedai,” which Mr. Prince directed for the New York City Opera in 1976. Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Instead, Covent Garden says that its more modern work will be incorporated into the mainstream programming of the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet. Seven days on stage: final act for Covent Garden's ROH2 2012-08-20T11:21:54Z

Being a full-time member of the Met Orchestra is grueling: Operas stretch late into the evening, and players are often due back in the morning for rehearsals. Opera Has Vanished. So Have Their Dream Jobs at the Met. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

And that excitement was further stoked by early clips from the episode, which appeared to offer “South Park”-style takes on Broadway fare like “Wicked” and “The Phantom of the Opera.” ArtsBeat Blog: 'South Park' Goes Broadway and Leaves Us Speechless 2011-10-27T12:53:31Z

A performance of “The Jungle Book,” a youth opera she had commissioned, was about to begin at the Alice Busch Opera Theater, and lots of children, including very young ones, were in the crowd. She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

They set off sparks whenever they appeared together, including a memorable series of performances of Verdi's "Rigoletto" at the Metropolitan Opera in 2005-06. Big ovation as Villazon returns to opera in Vienna 2010-03-23T00:50:00Z

The LA Opera said Tuesday that "Einstein" will open Oct. Glass, Britten highlight LA Opera's 2013-14 season 2013-01-09T02:01:04Z

The artists were seated, as usual, in the prime Opera House box, where they waved, sang and even cried as their peers paid tribute to their achievements. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

It’s the site, however, of the strange and wonderful Amargosa Opera House and Hotel. A Road Trip to Death Valley: Salt Flats, Chilly Nights and Kitsch 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

The winners of the Opera Awards are to be announced in May. Breakdancing opera star uses Instagram to promote classical music 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

He brought new productions, several world premieres and a new focus on the Baroque to City Opera. Irwin Schneiderman, Philanthropic Guide for City Opera, Dies at 88 2011-11-17T04:15:06Z

But he still kept strong connections to Seattle Opera. Peter Kazaras, veteran of all opera trades, steers Seattle Opera's young artists 2011-03-30T02:35:05Z

The staging by James Robinson debuted at London’s English National Opera last year and was seen this year at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. Met Opera to hire all-black chorus for ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Both the Royal Opera House and Boston Lyric Opera chiefs said that was exactly what they wanted to do. Saying Yes to Puccini, but No to His Stereotypes 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

When the war was over, people were “not willing or able to look back,” said James Conlon, the music director of the Los Angeles Opera and a champion of composers victimized by the Nazis. Schreker's Operas Begin to Be Heard 2010-04-13T10:00:00Z

Two years ago, the Metropolitan Opera went shopping for a new “Ring” in London and came home empty-handed. Review: This London ‘Ring’ Is on the Met Opera’s Radar 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z

In the U.S., there’s the Met in New York and the Lyric Opera in Chicago, which is an Art Deco masterpiece. Renée Fleming’s Favorite Cities 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Adam Fischer, a sought-after conductor, stepped down as music director of the State Opera in 2010 in part to protest the Orban government’s policies. Hungary Turned Far Right. That’s Meant Millions for Its Opera. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

“The Threepenny Opera” was a sensation in Europe after its premiere in Berlin in 1928. Stanley Chase Dies at 87; Gave New York Macheath 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Vixen” is familiar to those who saw New York City Opera’s lovely production, last presented in 1991, back in what increasingly looks like the bygone glory days of that struggling company. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z

The Pennsylvania Ballet threw a charming party onstage at the Kennedy Center Opera House on Friday night. At the Kennedy Center Opera House, music steals the show from the Pennsylvania Ballet

He was speaking by phone from Philadelphia, having just returned from New York and opening night of the revival of Verdi’s “Don Carlo” at the Metropolitan Opera. Yannick, unique: Philadelphia Orchestra hopes it’s found its savior. 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The immense expenditure of energy by 15 incredible dancers, from Company Wayne McGregor and the Paris Opera Ballet, is almost heartbreaking, given how little it yields in the way of emotional or narrative resonance. Review: ‘Tree of Codes,’ an Explosion of Energy in a Sea of More 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

But he discovered opera when he was eight, stumbling onto The Victor Book of the Opera at a friend’s house. One Opera Opening Would Make Any Composer Happy. He Has Two. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

In 2006, she went to work both for Seattle Opera and New York City Opera, until Seattle became home. Helping Seattle Opera's mermaids take flight 2012-08-02T20:15:05Z

Opera buffs had chances to hear the remarkable Ms. Savoy last year in two collaborative productions between the Juilliard Opera Theater and the Met’s Young Artist program. Music Review: Anthony Dean Griffey and Emalie Savoy at Morgan Library 2013-01-16T16:08:16Z

The general director of the new company is Michael Capasso, who ran another small company, Dicapo Opera Theater, which faltered and was sued for failing to pay musicians. New York City Opera Will Return, and Soon, Under Reorganization Plan 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

While visiting companies there are required to use the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, a deal was worked out in 2002 allowing the two orchestras to alternate. City Ballet Creates A Troupe For Touring 2011-01-06T22:45:21Z

Its world premiere will be in 2017 at the Dutch National Opera. The new librettist of ‘The New Prince’ 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

The comments by the chairman, Charles R. Wall, make it clear that the City Opera’s financial woes — once severe enough to raise questions about its survival — continue, despite a critically acclaimed season. Facing Financial Instability, City Opera Seeks to Plug $5 Million Deficit 2011-04-08T00:00:00Z

The effort follows in the pioneering digital footsteps of The Metropolitan Opera and London National Theatre's NT Live series, which concludes its second season this month with Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" starring Zoë Wanamaker. Broadway comes to movie screens 2011-06-08T21:45:05Z

Please let City Opera pass away in a dignified manner. New York City Opera’s Name and Other Assets Attract Suitors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

This was a surprising answer, given that Glass’s opera about Lee’s surrender to Grant premièred at the San Francisco Opera in 2007. Philip Glass Never Stops Writing 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Getting out of Lincoln Center could be the answer for City Opera, as several of Mr. Steel’s predecessors believed. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z

Opera was omnipresent, and by 5 she was studying piano. A Soprano With a Bottomless Appetite for Risk 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

She said that Mr. Gatti grabbed her bottom and shoved his tongue down her throat on her first day of rehearsals at the Lyric Opera in Chicago in 1996. Two Star Conductors Faced #MeToo Allegations. Now They’re Back. 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Winners will be announced at a ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on 16 February. Gravity leads Bafta nominations 2014-01-08T10:11:45Z

If this is the enthusiasm that Jurowski plans to bring to all the Bavarian State Opera’s new repertory, then Munich has a thrilling, occasionally frightening future in store. Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

The Opera Theater of St. Louis commissioned five operas from him over the years, including “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” based on the 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain. Stephen Paulus, Classical Composer Rich in Lyricism, Dies at 65 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

With a season only a bit longer than Seattle’s, the Canadian Opera Company of Toronto presents varied, thoughtful and popular programs. Music Review: Bernard Uzan, Director, Adds Context to Seattle?s ?Attila? 2012-01-26T22:27:32Z

The song was actually derived from “Mack the Knife” from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera.” Rubén Blades, a Salsa Legend, Swings in a Different Direction: Jazz 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

To opera devotees who on principle believe that productions of a cornerstone work should be true to the original setting, I say get thee to Verdi’s “Falstaff” at the Metropolitan Opera. Review: Ambrogio Maestri Returns for Another Round as ‘Falstaff’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

The prizes will be awarded at a ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on Feb. 12. 'Artist,' 'Tinker Tailor' up for UK film awards 2012-01-17T12:40:16Z

But, astonishingly, pieces by living composers make up about a third of the Metropolitan Opera’s coming season. Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

The piece, inspired by Inuit philosophy, will be performed outdoors in front of the Metropolitan Opera House. Exploring Motown Music at the Schomburg Center 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Dicapo Opera has presented recent American works with consistent distinction; Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta,” which it performed in December, has a planned Met debut in a few seasons. Critic's Notebook: With City Opera?s Woes, Other Small Companies Step Up 2012-01-04T14:47:57Z

To join him for this new go at the piece, Mr. Prince tapped some crucial colleagues from his City Opera staging, including the scenery designer Clarke Dunham and the costume designer Judith Dolan. Review: The Adventures of ‘Candide,’ and of City Opera 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Continues through Jan. 29 with this cast and conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan; metopera.org. Review: Amid Omicron, the Met Opera Opens a Weimar ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

It’s no surprise that on Monday, the Bavarian State Opera was not full; and the performance was not without a significant number of walkouts. Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

Opera, disco, rockabilly, soul – the band's sound mutated as quickly as Mercury's onstage wardrobe. Review: 'We Will Rock You' totally misses Queen's mercurial nature 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

“A lot of us can’t imagine a Lincoln Center without New York City Opera,” she said. City Opera Director Defends New Season 2011-07-12T23:00:30Z

Though having a booster like Mr. Steel at its helm is good for City Opera, few people would go that far. Critic?s Notebook: A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face 2010-12-31T22:50:05Z

Moore is nominated for best actress at the Bafta awards at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden on Sunday night. Moore: Alzheimer's role 'rewarding' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

An English bulldog plays a minor role in the new production of “The Threepenny Opera” that opened at the Atlantic Theater Company on Monday. Theater Review: Atlantic Theater’s Decadent, Decorous ‘Threepenny Opera’ 2014-04-08T02:00:15Z

Winners will be announced April 13 during a ceremony at London's Royal Opera House. Jude Law, Judi Dench up for Olivier theater awards 2014-03-10T13:49:44Z

Over the next couple of years, it will move on to Royal Opera in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Danish Royal Opera in Copenhagen. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

"It's nice," says George Clooney, standing manfully in the chill outside the Royal Opera House. Baftas 2012: Live blog 2012-02-12T18:09:00Z

“An absolute world cultural capital like New York cannot afford to let an institution like City Opera fail,” said Plácido Domingo, who had early successes there. How People?s Opera Orchestrated Its Peril 2011-06-15T13:37:18Z

Now that New York City Opera is back on its feet under the leadership of Michael Capasso, maybe it will take up the challenge. Revisiting “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the Opera 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Corigliano recently attended rehearsals for Los Angeles Opera's production of his opera "The Ghosts of Versailles." John Corigliano remembers surprise Oscar win for 'The Red Violin' 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The series is called “Cosmic Opera” and the headliner for the first concert on Feb. 24 will be Axwell, one of the three disc jockeys in Swedish House Mafia. ArtsBeat: Young Entrepreneur to Turn Dance Shows at Hammerstein Ballroom Into Dreamlike Theatrical Events 2012-01-11T16:39:43Z

In “La Bayadère,” which American Ballet Theater performed at the Metropolitan Opera House last week, one woman poisons another. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z

The Opera, where staff are currently on strike, did not respond to an interview request. Blackface at the Ballet Highlights a Global Divide on Race 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Puccini’s romantic tragedy will make its Capitol Theatre debut in Sydney, with Brian Castles-Onion conducting the Opera Australia Orchestra and Chorus. A Fall Season of Debuts, Returns and Farewells 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

The two, Millepied and the Opera, were not a good fit. Aurélie Dupont, Unbound 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera premiered “Porgy and Bess” at its opening night gala on Sept. 23. The Fall Social Season Begins 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The job, that is, of simply putting onstage this inexplicably overlooked masterpiece, adapted from David Belasco’s play “The Girl of the Golden West” and given its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Riva will not be at the Bafta awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday, where she is nominated for a best actress award. Emmanuelle Riva, 85, star of Amour, tells of her extraordinary life 2013-02-10T08:00:07Z

Leering male patrons, such as the top-hatted gents in so many of Degas’s ballet paintings, haunted the Paris Opera Ballet’s hallways. ‘Little Dancer’: Big roles for women in the Susan Stroman, Tiler Peck ballet musical

But Rodney Milnes, editor of “Opera” magazine, said the opera “gripped the imagination pretty remorselessly.” Groundbreaking composer Harrison Birtwistle dies at 87 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

The plucky Amore Opera often seems to fill gaps in the city’s season, and so it is with this production of Puccini’s classic love story. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Her steely technique and extraordinary physique — impossibly long, lean and flexible, her cambered feet like prehensile tools — were being talked about even while she was still a student at the Paris Opera Ballet School. Sylvie Guillem?s ?6000 Miles Away? at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-30T16:19:31Z

It opens at Seattle Opera on May 5. Seattle Opera’s ‘Aida’ spurs discussion of ways black people are misrepresented — or not represented — in opera 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

"On an adventure with @Renatocampora in #Sydney," the mother of two captioned the collage, which features the iconic Sydney Opera House, her stylist cutting her hair and a heart-shaped configuration made of the trimmings. Megan Fox shows off new haircut in Sydney 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

In her danced version of Gluck’s opera, performed over the weekend by the Paris Opera Ballet as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, Orpheus knows one art alone: grief. Dance Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2012-07-22T20:20:07Z

Reviews of his latest musical Love Never Dies – a sequel to Phantom of the Opera – have been mixed, by which we mean generally very bad. Unreported World | Liza and Huey's Pet Nation | Over the Raindow | Dancing with the Stars and more | Watch this 2010-03-26T06:45:00Z

With his surprising, sometimes shocking direction, "people at first didn't know what hit them," says Opera News editor in chief F. Paul Driscoll. Opera awards go to Peter Sellars and 4 singers 2012-04-30T09:46:04Z

Opera broadcasts often seem to favour voices, but here all was audible – essential in this score. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z

Dorny and Jurowski aspire to maintain their legacy, while also expanding the company’s stable of artists and repertory — starting with “The Nose,” written in the 1920s but never before presented at the Bavarian State Opera. A New Era Takes Shape at the World’s Opera Capital 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton It's no surprise that when funding has tightened, it is English National Opera that has become the first major arts company to fall into the red. The cash-strapped ENO must take a long, hard look at itself 2013-01-18T12:32:13Z

In the decades that followed, he performed on many of the great opera stages of Europe, including those of the Vienna State Opera, La Scala and Covent Garden. Giuseppe Taddei, Latecomer to the Met, Dies at 93 2010-06-04T05:43:00Z

Her performance of the same role at New York's Metropolitan Opera was equally well received. Opera great Joan Sutherland dies aged 83 2010-10-11T17:15:00Z

Since New York City Opera emerged from bankruptcy a year ago, it’s been hard to know what to make of it. Review: The Adventures of ‘Candide,’ and of City Opera 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Ai is set to speak on Thursday at the Australian launch of his asylum-seeker documentary, “Human Flow”, at the Sydney Opera House. Artist Ai Weiwei unfazed by China ending presidential term limits 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

In Twyla Tharp’s magnificent triple bill at American Ballet Theater last spring, the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House shook off its cobwebs. Best Dance of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

After all, they first worked together only last year, appearing as the lovers in Massenet’s “Manon” at the Metropolitan Opera. Review: Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo Sizzle in ‘Roméo et Juliette’ at the Met 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

The irrepressible Spanish tenor returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night, three weeks past his 70th birthday, to star in a revival of Gluck's "Iphigenie en Tauride." Domingo, having turned 70, returns to Met Opera 2011-02-13T20:35:16Z

It was more heart-wrenching than usual when Mercutio finally keeled over and died at the Metropolitan Opera House on Saturday night. American Ballet Theater Steadies Itself for Its Next Act 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

He hoped to continue conducting at the State Opera, he added. Daniel Barenboim, Titan of Conducting, Steps Down in Berlin 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Outside the Met, Domingo’s next scheduled U.S. performance is not until February, with LA Opera, which has not said how long it expects its investigation to last. Opera’s Domingo starts US performances amid allegations 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

At the Metropolitan Opera, James Levine, who shaped the modern company and made its orchestra world class, retired this month, 40 years after he became its music director. Music Director of San Francisco Opera to Step Down 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Last month, Arts Council England, a body that distributes government arts funding here, announced it was shutting off a grant to English National Opera worth 12.4 million pounds a year, or about $15 million. An Opera Company’s Precarious Future Has Some Worried About a Ripple Effect 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Women have also been barely present on the podiums of San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and the other major American houses. Female Conductors Search for Equality at Highest Level 2013-12-20T20:33:48Z

Opera regularly takes historical characters as its subjects, from Elizabeth I to Boris Godunov, but "docu-opera" is slightly different, playing with the tension between a highly unrealistic medium and a real-life story that we recognise. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z

Roumain balked, however, when Opera officials wanted him to remove the final line from his “They Still Want To Kill Us” libretto. Tulsa Opera fires composer of Greenwood massacre piece 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

For the Lyric Opera, the decision to dip further into the endowment is only the latest disappointment brought on by the pandemic. The Sacrosanct Endowment? Not Anymore for Some Arts Groups 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

He held out hope that by December “there will be a medical solution” to the coronavirus crisis that would allow the Met Opera to resume its shows on Dec. 31. 'Carmen' and coronavirus don't match: NYC's Met Opera closed till December 31 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Those forlorn catcalls, loud but isolated, left barely a dent in the wall of cheers which greeted cast, chorus and conductor Daniele Gatti in a new staging of Verdi's Falstaff at the Royal Opera House. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z

At the time the Metropolitan Opera was looking for some place to build a new home and its trustees approached Junior about acquiring the site. Rockefeller Center’s Art Deco Marvel: A Virtual Tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

The program began in February and is supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, which is also underwriting opera commissions for women, administered by Opera America. Winners Chosen in Program to Aid Female Composers 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The company announced two productions for the fall: “A Quiet Place” by Leonard Bernstein, which City Opera said had never been staged in New York City, and a revival of Strauss’s “Intermezzo.” For New York City Opera Season, Bernstein, Strauss and New Works 2010-03-09T18:29:00Z

Seattle Opera’s deeply felt production addresses some of the problematic issues with "Porgy and Bess," both with offstage displays and discussions, and onstage performances from singers who imbue their characters with depth and humanity. A brilliant cast breaks through stereotypes in Seattle Opera’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

But the sound of the orchestra — which draws its musicians from the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and several other groups — as it is known today was built by Langrée. A Farewell to Mostly Mozart, and to Its Music Director 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera has closed most of its concession areas, but its bar in the airiest section of the Grand Tier is now open, along with its restaurant. Broadway Is Back. Here’s What It’s Like for Theatergoers. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

A six-performance run opens at San Francisco Opera on Friday, after a staging in Los Angeles last fall. A Chelsea Manning-WikiLeaks Opera, Seen in a New Light 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

But what’s so pleasing about Heartbeat Opera’s “Butterfly” is how well its artistic intentions dovetail with its limited means. The Trailblazing Efforts of “Indie Opera” 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

For “The Turn of the Screw” to work, the opera company has to create a real sense of creepiness; Seattle Opera’s production succeeds, steadily building tension and a sense of uncertainty. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Last month Santa Fe Opera, responding to robust demand for tickets, added a sixth performance to the run. Review: ‘Cold Mountain,’ at Santa Fe Opera, Recounts a Separated Lover’s Arduous Journey 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

And despite its title, winter is not the focus of his first opera, “The Snow Queen,” which has its English-language premiere at the Bavarian State Opera here on Dec. 21. A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

But stripped of the City Opera production’s memorably creepy Southern gothic ambience, Mr. Alden’s work felt more arid and less tense, revealing or moving. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel 2012-05-27T22:36:40Z

“Everybody has seen a ‘Phantom of the Opera’ T-shirt — it’s a cognitive baseline, it lands in a place that we live,” Rubeo said. How the Colorful Costumes of ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Were Made 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Opera is the most visceral and immediate of art forms, even if many people haven’t realized that yet. Perspective | New opera wants the same appeal as television. If only it could be as smart.  2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

But Laurent Pelly’s searing staging, produced with the Vienna State Opera, crisply played and superbly cast, showed that a fogy can burn with as much — if not more — fire as something fresh. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Patrick Summers, music director of the Houston Grand Opera, led a flowing performance from the Met orchestra, far more used to Verdi and Puccini than Gluck. Domingo, having turned 70, returns to Met Opera 2011-02-13T20:35:16Z

Box office figures to be released later Monday show that "The Lion King" last week swiped the title of Broadway's all-time highest grossing show from "The Phantom of the Opera," The Associated Press has learned. 'Lion King' is Broadway's all-time box office king 2012-04-09T16:24:11Z

Opera pops up on the streets, in parks and at clubs. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

A role debut and the start of a farewell run piqued attention on Friday when the Metropolitan Opera revived its Ottoman eye-candy production of Mozart’s “Abduction From the Seraglio.” Review: James Levine Opens Last Run as Metropolitan Opera Music Director 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

In March, the Metropolitan Opera staged a concert featuring Ukraine’s national anthem and a piece by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, among others. Carnegie Hall Will Host Concert in Support of Ukraine 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

The Seattle Opera, performing Rachel Portman's "The Little Prince," and Seattle Aerial Arts will add airborne flair to the program. Stephen Hawking is star of Seattle's Science Luminaries Series 2012-06-08T18:24:05Z

But what makes the Santa Fe Opera distinctive? Review: Santa Fe Opera Offers ‘The Daughter of the Regiment,’ ‘Rigoletto’ and ‘Salome’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The familiar War Memorial Opera House is conjured through projections of the theater’s exterior and replicas of its dressing rooms as part of Alexander V. Nichols’s two-level set. Rossini at the Drive-In, as San Francisco Opera Returns 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

What a classy send-off for Jenkins, who has lifted Seattle Opera to new heights and earned the heartfelt gratitude of opera lovers worldwide. Galaxy of opera stars fete Seattle’s Speight Jenkins 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

A so-called opera in jazz, “Champion” premiered in 2013 at Opera Theater of St. Louis, in a production by James Robinson that will travel to New York. More Terence Blanchard Coming to Met Opera After Success of ‘Fire’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Last week the Swiss watchmaker Carl F. Bucherer, listed as “Title Sponsor, Opening Night” for the Hong Kong performances, disappeared from the roster of supporters in Opera Hong Kong’s publicity materials. The Opera ?Dr. Sun Yat-sen? Is Canceled in China 2011-10-11T19:57:08Z

"There are not so many male sopranos in the world," Laszczkowski said ahead of the first night, explaining why he was the first male soprano to sing at the Royal Opera House. Male soprano stars in "forgotten" Italian opera 2010-09-24T13:07:00Z

The operatic Nixon made this case for the first time here at the Civic Theatre on Saturday night as part of the San Diego Opera's 50th-anniversary celebration. San Diego Opera seizes the hour with prophetic 'Nixon in China' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Time Warner Inc., HBO's parent, spared no expense at the premiere held at the War Memorial Opera House, with roughly 3,000 attendees. HBO strengthens ties to Bay Area as center of gravity in media shifts 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Opera can be a very serious, heavy form; writing a comic opera is unusual. The Doctor's Tale: Barking up the right tree 2011-03-31T20:45:01Z

Fellow long-runner Phantom Of The Opera also posted its highest gross since Easter, rejoining the $1 Million Club as it bounced past recent hit Something Rotten! Broadway Box Office 7/27: Jim Parsons Is Worth $1 Million, 'Hamilton' Even More 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

“People did say, ‘Ooh, that might be a little early,’” recalled Gregory Henkel, head of the San Francisco Opera’s artistic division. For soprano Ailyn Perez, new opera roles and new marriage 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Fergus Linehan, a producer of the Vivid Live festival, which Ms. Anderson and Mr. Reed organized at the Sydney Opera House, said her international resonance was part of her appeal as a curator. Laurie Anderson?s Heart, Politics and Processors 2010-06-25T16:17:00Z

For that, one must head to the festival’s perennial rival, Munich and its Bavarian State Opera. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

"Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera," he explains. Doom: 'It's all new, all fun' 2012-08-16T13:35:39Z

And the Opera House audience lost its collective mind. Review | Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Paquita’: Glittering dancing but a skimpy story 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The New York Philharmonic is anticipating a loss of $10 million in revenue because of its closure; the Met Opera, up to $60 million. The Coronavirus Hasn’t Slowed Classical Music 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

But the new audience stayed away in droves; Saturday night’s crowd was one of the smallest I’ve seen for a Virginia Opera production. Va. Opera’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ rides on operatic voices, despite miking

On Thursday night, at the Howard Gilman Opera House, in Brooklyn, Werner Herzog sat on a stage reading bits of his own books and watching clips of his own films. In conversation with Werner Herzog: 'Facts do not constitute truth' 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

This month, the Royal Ballet was forced to end the sold-out run of his “Swan Lake” at the Royal Opera House after the coronavirus pandemic shut down the venue. Royal Ballet and Liam Scarlett Part Ways After an Investigation 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

His blazing technique was even sharper and more brilliant on the vast Metropolitan Opera House stage than in his years at Washington's Kennedy Center. The Washington Ballet let Brooklyn Mack go. He landed at the Metropolitan Opera House. 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

The 90-minute multimedia event was originally commissioned by the Sydney Opera House for its Graphic Festival in 2010 and was performed a year later for Mona Foma in Tasmania, an arts festival. ArtsBeat: Neil Gaiman Brings a Storytelling Performance to the States 2014-02-17T19:00:43Z

It was a gamble for this soprano to sing the touchstone title role of Puccini’s “Tosca” for the first time ever this spring at the Metropolitan Opera. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bergonzi performed in opera houses around the world, including London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and steadily increased his reputation as an insightful interpreter of the Italian canon. Carlo Bergonzi, celebrated Italian tenor and interpreter of Verdi, dies at 90

Mr. Sylbert started out painting backdrops at the Metropolitan Opera but, encouraged by his brother, who worked at NBC, moved to television. Paul Sylbert, Oscar-Winner Who Gave Movies Their Look, Dies at 88 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Flash back to last New Year’s Eve, and there was the Broadway star Marin Mazzie in a form-fitting black ball gown, on her way to see “The Merry Widow” at the Metropolitan Opera. Marin Mazzie on Cancer and Songs in the Key of Life 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Her concept and that production’s set and century-spanning costumes have been imported to Seattle Opera. Seattle Opera’s ‘Barber of Seville’ promises madcap, colorful fun 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

“Opera is not boring or old,” she said. She’s Making History in Opera. Can She Help Ensure Its Future? 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

The Zurich Opera House, which Mr. Pereira has run for 20 years and will continue to run during the 2011-2012 season, offers approximately 14 new productions every season, probably more than any other opera company. Music: New Director of Salzburg Festival Plans an Adventurous Course 2011-08-31T11:00:06Z

A month later, Music Center Opera opened with a celebrated production of Verdi’s “Otello” starring — who else? How Plácido Domingo taught L.A. to love opera 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

While most of the materials are at the House of Music in Vienna, a multipurpose sound museum, some reside at the State Opera. Vienna Philharmonic to Invest Nilsson Prize Money in Archive 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Witman, 58, is celebrating her 30th year at the Wolf Trap Opera. Wolf Trap Opera Company: The house that Kim built 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Endlessly adventurous, it is also a magnet for major support; its members have performed on high-profile stages, been commissioned by the likes of the Paris Opera and even won a MacArthur “genius” fellowship. Opera’s ‘Island of Misfit Toys’ Takes Its Biggest Stage Yet 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

When Orpheus turned around to look at Eurydice during the closing performance of Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice” at the Metropolitan Opera, the audience’s collective gasp seemed to shake the grand theater. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

World premieres for the Royal Opera include Philip Glass’s “The Trial,” based on the Kafka novella, and Soren Nils Eichberg’s “Glare,” both to be staged in the smaller Linbury Studio Theater. ArtsBeat: Virginia Woolf Ballet and New Philip Glass Work Highlight Royal Opera House Season 2014-03-31T17:26:21Z

The Metropolitan Opera came to a halt on Saturday after an audience member threw a powdery substance—which police believe was cremated human ashes—into the pit during intermission. Police Say Powder Thrown at Metropolitan Opera May Have Been Human Ashes 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

If City Opera were to move to offices across the street, Mr. Steel said, and simply rent the Koch Theater for the company’s production weeks, that would save $2 million a year. Critic?s Notebook: For an Opera Company, a Troubled Vision Quest 2011-07-13T11:48:19Z

Raised on the Upper West Side, Mr. Bernstein said he was taken as a 6-year-old to the Metropolitan Opera to see Leontyne Price in “Aida.” Jed Bernstein, Broadway Producer, to Lead Lincoln Center 2013-05-15T16:10:30Z

There isn’t much stage action in this production by the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Tendinitis Sidelines a Royal Opera Conductor The occupational health problems of instrumental musicians are known -- nervous system problems that lead to unresponsive fingers, tendinitis, blown-out lip muscles. ArtsBeat: Tendinitis Sidelines a Royal Opera Conductor 2012-11-12T20:44:18Z

The event is being held on Saturday at the Waterville Opera House. Maine students’ work screened at film festival 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

He later became a director, overseeing such landmark musicals as “Cabaret,” ”Company,” ”Follies,” ”Sweeney Todd,” ”Evita” and “The Phantom of the Opera.” Towering Broadway director and producer Hal Prince dead 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Early this summer, Thielemann made a last-minute debut with the Staatskapelle Berlin — the State Opera’s orchestra — in performances of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony. One of the World’s Great Maestros Is Suddenly a Free Agent 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

The result, he assured his audience, is a “classic,” worthy of world-class opera houses such as London’s Covent Garden, Vienna’s State Opera House and now, the Châtelet. Theater: Th??tre Du Ch?telet Aims to Bring Broadway to Paris 2011-04-14T14:00:04Z

But in its best numbers, Ms. Katona Bennett, who played Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera,” dropped the official facade of graciousness and sentimentality to voice a cheerful sense of the absurd. Music Review: Raissa Katona Bennett at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-08-23T22:26:11Z

On Wednesday night it returned to the English National Opera for one more run. Music Review: A Wagnerian Quest in Proper English 2011-02-17T22:57:54Z

This is a spooked time for American opera: the Chicago Lyric Opera, for example, one of the country’s most prominent companies, recently announced a 2012-13 season of discouraging artistic caution. Music Review: Bernard Uzan, Director, Adds Context to Seattle?s ?Attila? 2012-01-26T22:27:32Z

Mr. Davis’s operatic writing was once performed at Lincoln Center by New York City Opera; now, if you want to hear this work in the city, you’ll likely end up at Roulette. A Critic’s Favorite Space for Music in New York Turns 40 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Opera North's concept commits the Wagnerian heresy of placing the orchestra in view. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z

His death, after a long illness, was announced by the Dallas Opera, with which Mr. Hall had been closely associated for five decades. Peter J. Hall, Costumer for Opera, Theater, Dies at 84 2010-06-10T05:00:00Z

Alden’s staging, taken over from the English National Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera and the Teatro Real in Madrid, falls into the muddy isn’t-it-all-bleak school of direction with costumes dark and stage bare. Review | Russell Thomas headlines bleak ‘Otello’ at WNO 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

“As in his instrumental works, his language here is thickly chromatic with whiffs of serial techniques,” Anthony Tommasini wrote in The Times of the 1997 premiere at the Santa Fe Opera. Peter Lieberson, Composer Inspired by Buddhism, Dies at 64 2011-04-23T23:48:51Z

Spending a few hours in the comfort of the Metropolitan Opera enjoying the madcap adventures of Rossini’s endearing characters would surely provide a welcome escape. Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Tell me about performing “All I Ask of You” with Kelly Clarkson, who is great but also not necessarily the first artist that comes to mind when I think Phantom of the Opera. Watch Josh Groban Tell the Ultimate Dad Joke 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Justin Peck, a soloist with City Ballet as well as its resident choreographer, came to Paris a month earlier than his colleagues to work with the Paris Opera Ballet. New York City Ballet Savors the City of Light 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

I am sure he will do an amazing job at the Royal Opera House. Alex Beard, deputy director of Tate, to succeed Tony Hall as head of Royal Opera House 2013-03-19T17:36:06Z

A seminar on "The Beautiful Game of Chess," Morphy's Opera House, becomes edge-of-your-seat stuff even if viewers have no knowledge of the game. With "Critical Thinking," John Leguizamo directs a rousing "Stand and Deliver"-style chess story 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

“That’s not the Met Opera,” said James J. Claffey Jr., president of Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which represents Met stagehands, pointing over to the opera house. ‘We Are the Met’: Opera Unions Rally Against Proposed Pay Cuts 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

I emailed the Royal Opera: how much was the horse? Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z

It's a book handwritten by Henri Justament, a ballet master for the Paris Opera in the 1860s, with essentially the entire staging of the ballet sketched out. PNB turns old documents into a new 'Giselle' 2011-05-25T21:51:07Z

One of Europe's leading contemporary choreographers, Preljocaj has made more than 48 works, including dances for, among others, the Paris Opera Ballet, Berlin Ballet and New York City Ballet. The dark side of choreographer Angelin Preljocaj comes to L.A. 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

I’ve waited my whole life to sit, like Cher, in a Met Opera box and hold the wooden hand of my lover and cry. O Mad Night! 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

She later became one of City Opera’s most bankable stars, headlining specially created productions of Douglas Moore’s “Ballad of Baby Doe,” Handel’s “Semele” and Strauss’s “Daphne.” Elizabeth Futral at Lincoln Center Festival and Glimmerglass 2012-07-18T21:49:41Z

He debuted in the baritone Simon Boccanegra role at London's Royal Opera House last year. Domingo's La Scala performance hit by strike 2010-05-03T19:07:00Z

She recalled, for example, performing "Nutcracker" at the Paramount while the old Opera House was being remodeled into McCaw Hall. Ariana Lallone prepares to bow out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2011-03-30T23:08:55Z

"The void is something City Opera always filled in its earlier years," he said. NYC Opera announces 1st full season after bankruptcy 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Three of Lincoln Center’s biggest constituent organizations — the Met Opera, City Ballet and the Philharmonic — all hope to resume in the fall. Lincoln Center Will Head Outside Its Closed Theaters to Perform 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Opera time is glacial, and this “Ring” has been five years in the conceiving. Arts & Leisure Preview: The Valhalla Machine 2010-09-17T16:10:00Z

But with “Antony and Cleopatra,” which premiered on Saturday at the start of San Francisco Opera’s centennial season, Adams, 75, has finally become conventional. Review: In ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ John Adams Goes Conventional 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

They were all over the steps of the Sydney Opera House. Laurie Anderson: music for dogs and Obama 2013-02-13T20:00:01Z

So it was perhaps unsurprising when Mr. Goecke, 50, the ballet director at the Hanover State Opera, confronted her, asking why she wrote so negatively about him. Choreographer Smears Dog Feces on Critic After Negative Review 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

Other stars on the list include Robert Lindsay, for his role in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Manchester's Opera House. Manchester theatre stars shortlisted 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Your returned to the stage five years later, when you were 36, at the National Opera Association’s vocal competition. He Quit Singing Because of Body Shaming. Now He’s Making a Comeback. 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

At the recent “topping off” ceremony for the new home of The Seattle Opera’s administrative and production spaces, General Director Aidan Lang had just gotten his voice back after being silenced by a cold. An opera about Steve Jobs is part of Seattle Opera’s 2018-19 season 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera, one of the co-producers of this seething and psychologically piercing staging, presented it in April with a matchless cast headed by the gleaming soprano Nina Stemme in the title role. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

“The Enchanted Island,” which receives its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s Eve and runs in repertory through Jan. 30, is called a pastiche. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z

Given the financial straits, it seemed possible that there would be no next season or that City Opera might even go under. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z

The 62nd Viennese Opera Ball on Feb. 10 benefited a project about Leonard Bernstein at the Jewish Museum. Winter at the Waldorf 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

"It's a direct engagement with younger audiences," said City Opera General Manager George Steel. New York opera houses woo new fans with edgier fare 2010-10-03T13:17:00Z

The LA Opera did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday on the progress of its investigation, which it announced over a month ago. Domingo focus shifts to California, the last of his US shows 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

“I didn’t really have the pipes, but I drove my mother crazy every Saturday listening to the Metropolitan Opera on the radio.” At a Moment of Racial Tumult, the Little Rock Nine Inspire an Opera 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Most of the performances in those venues are produced by resident companies, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera and Center Theatre Group, which are financially separate from the Music Center organization. L.A. Music Center and its lead fundraiser support financial audit 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Renée Fleming, when she sings, usually seems to be a football field away from her audiences at the Metropolitan Opera or Carnegie Hall. Review: Renée Fleming, Up Close, at SubCulture 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

His Barber of Seville, with Cox, featured in an early season at the Sydney Opera House in 1976. Roger Butlin obituary 2011-08-17T17:52:04Z

The event was so successful that Seattle Opera designed the new position of scholar in residence to formalize an ongoing relationship with André. Seattle Opera may have the country’s only opera scholar in residence, helping make the art form more diverse and relevant 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

As he delivered the line on Saturday evening at Santa Fe Opera, the tenor Ben Bliss gestured toward the vast landscape beyond the stage, still visible to the audience as the sun set. Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

Sheer volume is key, as the Metropolitan Opera, with its recent pledge to present at least two contemporary titles a season, is learning. At This Summer’s Aix Festival, the Only Laughter Is Bitter 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

He also talks about the global brand of the Royal Opera House, now that its work can be accessed overseas. New BBC director general Tony Hall: 'It's about setting the conditions whereby artists flourish' 2013-03-02T09:01:06Z

English National Opera's new Julius Caesar opened this week with a staging of such folly that by breakfast next day it was near impossible to believe it really happened. Julius Caesar; Siegfried – review 2012-10-06T23:08:03Z

As part of the search for a new formula, the board recruited William Mason, the former general director at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, as artistic adviser until a permanent general director is named. San Diego Opera Downsizes to Survive 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

The first lady’s office on Monday released some details about the dinner, which will feature a cream-and-gold color scheme and a performance by the Washington National Opera. ‘She has a design background’: Melania Trump prepares to host first state dinner 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

For the first time in his 27 years as general director of Seattle Opera, Speight Jenkins is bringing a new, commissioned work to birth. Seattle Opera's 'Amelia': Approachable music, a powerful story 2010-04-28T23:27:00Z

“I still can’t believe it worked,” said Dudamel, the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Paris Opera, of he and his fellow conductors getting together. California’s Leading Conductors Come Together for a New Festival 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

The Polish National Opera in March dropped a production of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” one of the greatest Russian operas, to express “solidarity with the people of Ukraine.” Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

As described by Opera Lafayette, the work is a mythical journey “from conflict to unity,” which will feature dancers from three companies representing Egyptians, Amazons and Gods of the Nile. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The defining quality of Welsh National Opera's new staging by David Pountney, his first since becoming artistic director of the company in 2011, is its beauty. Lulu; Huw Watkins day – review 2013-02-17T00:06:20Z

As he takes his place among the Schoenbergs and Feldmans, he needs institutions like City Opera, and City Opera, still struggling to build an audience, needs — or thinks it needs — him. To Get to City Opera, Mr. Downtown Practiced Eclecticism 2011-03-18T23:21:12Z

Miss Williams’s hiring by City Opera was of a piece with the tentative first stabs by postwar America at integrating the worlds of culture and entertainment. Camilla Williams, Opera Singer, Dies at 92 2012-02-02T22:51:38Z

Seattle Opera presents its specially adapted version of “Elixir” as an online video stream that will be available to all season subscribers at seattleopera.org starting Nov. 13 and accessible until Dec. 4. Seattle Opera experiments with a socially distanced stage production, filmed movie-style 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

The Washington National Opera production runs through Nov. 15, with alternating casts, at the Kennedy Center; the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists offer an additional performance on Nov. 14. At WNO, a ‘La Bohème’ that gets the job done

This festival isn’t replacing Opera Philadelphia’s regular season — another key piece of the puzzle — but it may become a key part of the season for everyone. Perspective | How do you get an audience excited for opera? It’s the vision thing. 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

As part of Carnegie Hall’s three-week festival Vienna: City of Dreams, the Vienna State Opera presented concert performances of two seminal early-20th-century works. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z

The Lyric Opera of Chicago put in wider seats in the summer of 2020, following the example of the Music Hall in Cincinnati and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. ‘The Opposite of Airlines’: When Larger Audiences Require Fewer Seats 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

But four years ago, the Metropolitan Opera proposed a new, probably unprecedented pairing. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2019 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

While there was plenty to celebrate artistically this season at the Metropolitan Opera — with several acclaimed new productions and memorable star turns — the company’s worrying box-office slump continued. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Marks, in an essay for Opera magazine, also points out a crucial contrast between Britten's War Requiem and Tippett's King Priam. King Priam, a pacifist's opera, can still shed light on the trauma of war 2012-05-24T09:32:34Z

The happy couple said “I do” at the Marigny Opera House in New Orleans. Solange Knowles Marries Alan Ferguson 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

Opera News will honor five singers with its 2015 Opera News Award, a prize given annually by the magazine to recognize contributions to the opera world. Five Singers Win Opera News Awards 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

The performance that I saw was being filmed, watched by a handful of journalists and Paris Opera employees. Roland Petit: A French Choreographer, Most Savored in France 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

When he decided to write a ballet, McCartney visited the Royal Opera House in London and saw "Giselle," meeting the dancers of the Royal Ballet afterward to discuss the work. Paul McCartney signs with Decca label, at last 2011-08-23T18:37:23Z

Onstage, I’ve only ever been in two, “Cabaret” and “The Threepenny Opera.” Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! No, Really, You Gotta! 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

Given this contribution, it's disappointing that her company receives no public funding except for a tiny stipend from the Royal Opera House, who allow the dancers to use their studios on Sundays. Ballet Black – review 2013-03-10T00:05:38Z

“It was a massive step forward,” David B. Devan, the general director of Opera Philadelphia, which commissioned “Breaking the Waves,” said. After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

New York City Opera announced on Monday that it was seeking the help of a federal mediator in a deadlock with the unions representing its chorus and orchestra. ArtsBeat Blog: City Opera Calls for Mediator in Impasse With Unions 2011-12-05T22:00:04Z

The Paris Opera and the Venezuelan director announced the appointment Friday. LA Phil’s Dudamel to become music director of Paris Opera 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Alexander Raskatov's version of it gets its UK premiere at English National Opera in the staging by Simon McBurney first seen at Netherlands Opera in June. A Dog's Heart - review 2010-11-21T21:31:00Z

The Opera Buffs Fall showcase features scenes and arias from Bizet, Mozart, Puccini, Strauss and more. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 22-29: Berlioz, Philip Glass and more 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

Yet as long as City Opera remains a roving company presenting a handful of productions in various theaters, it is going to be harder to cultivate a strong profile and build loyal audiences. Critic’s Notebook: City Opera Might Do Best at City Center 2013-04-26T23:56:25Z

Despite her longtime career as a swing for “The Phantom of the Opera,” Janet Saia said she once returned a ticket when she arrived at “The Producers” and found that Nathan Lane was out. On Broadway, Newly Vital Understudies Step Into the Spotlight 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

“Oscar” runs through Aug. 17 at the Santa Fe Opera, where the season continues through Aug. 24 in Santa Fe, N.M.; Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z

A week before Naomi André’s panel this month on Black representation in the arts, Seattle Opera closed registration for attendance. Seattle Opera may have the country’s only opera scholar in residence, helping make the art form more diverse and relevant 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

That February concert ended a three-year period in which he reigned in New York, first as a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and then as the Philharmonic’s music director. Music Review: With Subtlety and Power, Observing Mahler?s Moment 2011-05-22T21:35:57Z

Opera houses and symphony orchestras tend to draw an older and more vulnerable audience than night clubs and comedy clubs. Cities and States Are Easing Covid Rules. Should the Arts Follow? 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

Igor Stravinsky, who was preparing to collaborate with Thomas on an opera, wrote an admiring letter to Adam: International Review with the heading “The Opera That Might Have Been.” A Dylan Thomas Centennial in New York 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Audi has also worked as a guest director at several opera and theater companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opera and the Vienna State Opera. Pierre Audi Is Set to Become Artistic Director of Park Avenue Armory 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Opera on Tap: Performances generally monthly at venues around town. Go to a dive bar, drink beer — listen to opera? 2 writers experience Opera on Tap at Blue Moon | Art Outings 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Opera companies around the world make a habit of presenting works in concert. Dear Met Opera: Please, More Concerts Like This Berlioz 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

I sang, perhaps inspired by Opera Man, in celebration of completing our journey. Explorer: In Spain, Hiking Along the Volcanoes of Catalonia 2011-09-09T19:00:10Z

The Metropolitan Opera is presenting the original French version for the first time starting Monday night after 217 performances of the extensively revised and translated Italian version more familiar as “Don Carlo.” Verdi’s ‘Don Carlos’ arrives at Met Opera in original French 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

Susanna Phillips, a star soprano at the Metropolitan Opera, was listening to a recording of herself one recent afternoon, as she had done so many times before. Romancing the Horn: Opera Stars Record Like It’s 1900 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, played his solo with panache. Music Review: Daniil Trifonov in Piano Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-10-01T21:49:39Z

The Seegers’ family, friends and musicians who worked with them will offer stories and music at a public memorial service at the Bardavan Opera House, in Poughkeepsie on July 18. ArtsBeat: A Seeger Fest to Honor Pete and Toshi, and It’s Free 2014-04-30T14:00:46Z

Opera fans could probably identify the composer — Giuseppe Verdi — but they might have had trouble placing the tune. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

How did you fit in at the Opera with its strict system of promotion? Brigitte Lefèvre, Ballet’s Disciplined Rebel, Takes Her Next Steps 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

The new production by Tim Albery that opened the Canadian Opera Company's season Saturday afternoon isn't set in ancient Egypt as Verdi and his librettists intended. Radvanovksy triumphs in Toronto "Aida" 2010-10-03T15:31:00Z

She was to have made her Metropolitan Opera debut last month in Gluck’s “Iphigénie en Tauride” but the production was dropped in schedule revisions caused by the pandemic. Stutzmann to follow Spano as Atlanta Symphony music director 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Since Millepied secured the post of director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet, the family has relocated to Paris. Natalie Portman on Israel, Hollywood sexism and ‘being the boss’ 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

In the past, under a previous owner, LaPaz sold its caviar to Lincoln Ristorante at Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, among others. How to make caviar sustainable 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Daniel Slater's new production of Eugene Onegin for Opera Holland Park leaves the worlds of both Pushkin and Tchaikovsky behind. Eugene Onegin – review 2012-07-17T17:30:01Z

Though one prior documentary about “Einstein” exists—1985’s one-hour “Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera”—Walter’s project has the benefit of a longer and deeper artistic legacy on which to report. Philip Glass Never Stops Writing 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

The effect is sophomoric, in much the same way that the close of Mr. Bondy’s “Tosca” is for the Metropolitan Opera, when the heroine, jumping to her death, is seen suspended in midair. 2010-02-10T05:31:00Z

It's a question theatre director Neil Bartlett and mezzo-soprano Jessica Walker, herself no stranger to breeches roles, are trying to answer in The Girl I Left Behind Me, a touring show for Opera North. Ladies as gents 2010-05-13T21:15:00Z

In mid-January, suffering from what a psychiatrist called “nervous exhaustion,” she backed out of Bellini’s “The Pirate,” at the Palermo Opera. Anita Cerquetti, Opera Fill-In Who Soared, Dies at 83 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

That’s the bleak scenario at the Metropolitan Opera, where fractious labor negotiations threaten to disrupt the new season for the first time in more than 30 years. Lockout looms as Met contracts set to expire 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

“The next time I’m back, I’d like to see more. ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’ are on my list.” Broadway Defies the Odds With Another Record-Breaking Season 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

There have been plenty of indications that the Metropolitan Opera is under new musical management. ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Protestors held signs that read "The Met Opera glorifies terrorism" and "Opera justifies attacks on America, Israel, Jews." Metropolitan Opera braces for 'Death of Klinghoffer' opening 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

But in Peking Opera, movement is much more important than in the Western version. Peking Opera at Kennedy Center has the right moves, if not the best sounds

She danced with the New York City Opera and presented the work of other choreographers, including her dance partner Joseph Gifford. Mary Anthony, Choreographer and Teacher of Modern Dance, Dies at 97 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Ms. Billinghurst greeted them warmly, congratulating Mr. Green on his job next year with the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera, before settling into her seat at the back of the hall. Sarah Billinghurst on Her Tenure at the Met 2014-05-09T21:50:45Z

Following its initial production, it languished until Opera Holland Park took it up last year, offering a promenade staging for reduced forces. Fantastic Mr Fox ? review 2011-02-20T21:30:01Z

Only “The Phantom of the Opera,” which opened in New York in 1988, has been on Broadway longer. A Rough Rehearsal, a Suicide and a Broadway Show in Turmoil 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Fabio Luisi has been appointed principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera starting next season, a move that some will see as making him a candidate to eventually succeed James Levine as music director. Luisi appointed Met's principal guest conductor 2010-04-27T23:37:00Z

So emotionally drained was the audience at Saturday afternoon's performance at the Metropolitan Opera that silence lingered in the house for several moments after the curtain fell. Review: Stirring revival of Poulenc opera at Met 2013-05-06T12:51:11Z

The Opera Orchestra of New York offers concert versions of more esoteric grand operas and the spectacle of star singers stretching their comfort zones. Critic's Notebook: With City Opera?s Woes, Other Small Companies Step Up 2012-01-04T14:47:57Z

Norman, a soprano, was born in the U.S. state of Georgia and spent much of her early career in Europe before making her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1983. U.S. opera singer Jessye Norman dies at 74 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Often called the dean of African-American composers, Mr. Still also worked with Langston Hughes — on “Troubled Island,” which played at New York City Opera in 1949. Operas by Black Composers Have Long Been Ignored. Explore 8. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Nowadays their “Dichterliebe,” which they performed eloquently at the Bavarian State Opera in July, is more objective, almost standoffish. 30 Years on, the World’s Greatest Song Partnership Flourishes 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

His work at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich has been praised, and officials there said on Monday that they still hoped to extend his contract beyond 2018. Berlin Philharmonic Selects Kirill Petrenko to Succeed Simon Rattle 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

The title is lifted from a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera.” Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Gurrumul: This celebration of the musician's life and music at Sydney Opera House had drama and verve. Gurrumul at Vivid Live 2013 – review 2013-05-29T00:41:49Z

The opulent sets and costumes, purchased at a 2012 auction from New York City Opera, are reasons to see this production. Finding the Right ‘Nutcracker’ for You and Yours 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Lyric Opera of Chicago recently announced that its ticket sales rose last season, but that its biggest seller was not an opera but a musical, “The Sound of Music.” Not Over Till Overtime’s Due? Met Labor Strife Bares Secrets 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The stagehands returned after reaching a deal in a dramatic all-night bargaining session earlier this month in List Hall, the small auditorium where the Opera Quiz is held during the Met’s Saturday matinee radio broadcasts. The Fate of the Met Opera’s Fall Season Lies in Its Orchestra Pit 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

Even off the Opera stage, clothes to me emphasize a character. 11 Women on Phoebe Philo’s Céline Era 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

He was staying in an apartment with panoramic views of the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. He made a fortune from his trademarked Bikram yoga, but now his empire is in tatters 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Wolf Trap Opera is generally far more the latter — not least because its singers are mainly unknown and its programming is tailored to the strengths of its cast in any given summer. Summer opera: Wine, women and Gassmann 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

That peculiar little show, from the local company Opera on Tap, had made me joyous. Fringe Festival Never Met a Topic It Didn’t Like 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Now the Metropolitan Opera, which has been placing a premium on theatrical values in recent years, is growing adept at switching directors, too. Richard Eyre to Direct ‘Figaro’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2013-08-28T21:51:58Z

In a high point of the fall social season, the Metropolitan Opera held its opening night gala Sept. 26. Fall Brings Operas, Harvest Festivals and a Bounty of Galas 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Last month when City Opera said it was leaving Lincoln Center, it gave no clue as to where it might end up. How People?s Opera Orchestrated Its Peril 2011-06-15T13:37:18Z

Photograph: Clive Barda Welsh National Opera's only previous production of Lulu, in 1971, was the first ever by a British company. Lulu – review 2013-02-10T17:30:27Z

We badly need a definitive recording of it, however this new version, based round Opera Rara's revival in March last year, isn't quite that – for all its strengths. Rossini: Ermione 2010-10-07T21:29:00Z

At the leafy Wormsley estate in Buckinghamshire, 40 miles northeast of London, the Garsington Opera presents familiar names to an audience that expects a bit more than an evening at the theater. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

On a balmy Wednesday evening, a large crowd turned up at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park to see the soprano Angel Blue’s first appearance with the Metropolitan Opera. Review: Angel Blue Makes Her Met Debut 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Silent Opera Orfeo Trinity Buoy Wharf, Until 10 February Indeed, the evening's musical and especially vocal values are its strongest points. Orfeo – review 2013-01-24T17:46:08Z

But the Philharmonic dissolved in 1982; a reconstituted Kansas City Symphony joined the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and the Kansas City Ballet at the slowly crumbling Lyric Theater nearby. Critic?s Notebook: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo. 2011-11-20T19:25:33Z

The Royal Opera House still employs someone to present the flowers, even if he — men are preferred for the bouquet bestowing — now wears a rather nondescript outfit and is bereft of a wig. The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The letter accuses the management of “the dismembering of City Opera, piece by piece, person by person.” Stars Sign Letter Protesting City Opera?s Move 2011-07-07T21:45:25Z

Opera diva Smith's arrival ruffles feathers and stirs up ancient memories. This week's new films 2013-01-05T00:06:04Z

So for longtime City Opera devotees, this “Candide” will feel like a return to a company milestone. Review: The Adventures of ‘Candide,’ and of City Opera 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

This playful, colorful staging, which comes from the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, is saturated with Buddhist imagery; elements of Asian theater, including puppets; and, believe it or not, a pair of sumo wrestlers. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Opera America, a service organization for companies, is opening a new National Opera Center in Manhattan filled with rooms for auditions, rehearsals and lessons. National Opera Center Is to Open in Manhattan 2012-09-14T16:47:40Z

Who are these people — and what is Seattle Opera doing to ensure there will be still more Ringheads in the future? At Seattle Opera, not resting on the ‘Ring’ 2013-08-22T02:38:02Z

Forty years ago, almost to the day, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba made its American debut at the Kennedy Center Opera House. Review | As Cuba enters the post-Castro era, its ballet company seems stuck in the past 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Opera has been used to tell the stories of other complex contemporary figures. New opera tells Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's story 2011-04-27T17:31:07Z

The President’s Box on the first tier came next, followed by visits to dressing rooms, the Eisenhower Theater’s green room, and the Opera House orchestra pit. Before his final bow, a Kennedy Center veteran hands out one last backstage pass 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

In a work full of lithe charm, the Hamburg musicians, who also serve as the orchestra of the Hamburg State Opera, were able to showcase a more exuberantly playful side of their collective personality. Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

The Royal Opera "fully supports" the decision, it said. ArtsBeat: Tendinitis Sidelines a Royal Opera Conductor 2012-11-12T20:44:18Z

Her latest opera, “Proving Up,” premiered at the Washington National Opera in January, and she was named composer-in-residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a two-year-term starting in July. Perspective | Best of classical music 2018: Amid the turbulence, moments to savor 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Opera is an art form awash with preposterous endings. Review: A Cast Change Adds Suspense to the Met Opera’s ‘Pearl Fishers’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Several years ago, the work drew a young crowd to the Metropolitan Opera that filled cheaper seats with their backpacks - and enthusiasm for a cutting-edge opera as fresh as a Broadway musical. Opera awards go to Peter Sellars and 4 singers 2012-04-30T09:46:04Z

The Vienna State Opera makes it happen with its new production of "Tristan and Isolde." Stemme shines as Isolde in Wagner's love story 2013-06-14T14:56:09Z

It premiered at New York City Opera in 1949, but continues to wait for a second production. A Black Composer’s Intense Opera Gets a Rare Staging 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Production’s Wagnerian Difficulties Much as I detest that overused adjective “awesome,” it seems an appropriate word to describe the Canadian director Robert Lepage’s recent staging of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle at the Metropolitan Opera. | ‘Wagner’s Dream’: ‘Wagner’s Dream,’ Documentary About Met’s ‘Ring’ Cycle 2012-07-18T23:04:08Z

The conductor James Meena drew a surging, plush performance from the City Opera Orchestra. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

A scene from the Royal Opera House's production of The Wind in the Willows. The Wind in the Willows to transfer from Royal Opera House to West End 2013-07-08T23:01:01Z

The production is being done in tandem with the English National Opera, where it had its premiere in September. Gheorghiu Withdraws From ?Faust? at Met 2011-03-07T23:30:20Z

Sometimes he was famous for the wrong reasons, like missing due dates, as with his commission from the Lyric Opera of Chicago to write a new work for the American Bicentennial in 1976. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish Composer With Cinematic Flair, Dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles Opera said unaudited figures for its recently ended 30th anniversary season show a 19.9% increase in the number of tickets sold and a 27.6% rise in ticket revenue compared with the previous season. Los Angeles Opera says ticket sales jump in its anniversary season 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

And at the Royal Opera here, in a production that opened on Thursday, it is fully extraordinary. Review: Netrebko and Kaufmann Is as Good as Opera Gets 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Opera production, also happens to be today’s best-known Thaïs. Intriguing parallels between L.A. Opera's Thais and Blanche DuBois 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Opening Thursday at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, it is part of the first night of Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now, an annual festival of contemporary music and performance. ‘Toxic Psalms,’ in the Prototype Festival, Explores Ethical Choices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

“Das Rheingold” has three additional performances at the Metropolitan Opera House through Oct. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z

She was taking a short break from rehearsing “The Handmaid’s Tale” — the first production at English National Opera she is directing since taking over its artistic leadership in the middle of the pandemic. For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

“Other than Janet Collins, Blacks were not hired at that time,” she said, referring to the first African American prima ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera. Moving Over: A Powerhouse of Black Dance Is Retiring (Mostly) 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The Opera Orchestra of New York, which canceled its season last year, has come back with two concerts this year. Freelance Musicians Hear Mournful Coda as the Jobs Dry Up 2010-12-05T00:17:00Z

And he strengthened the two opera companies he ran: Houston Grand Opera, which he led for 33 years, and San Francisco Opera, where he has been for the last decade. David Gockley, Opera Impresario, Hangs Up His Cloak 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The Washington National Opera’s current general manager, Placido Domingo, is leaving when his contract expires in June. ArtsBeat: Washington National Opera and the Kennedy Center Agree to Merge 2011-01-20T15:01:36Z

The children of the Paris Opera Ballet School were engagingly immersed in their characters and dancing. A Proudly Unsentimental ‘Nutcracker’ at Paris Opera Ballet 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

"If you remain true to the script and to the music it's not old fashioned at all," de Lappe said in an interview in the rehearsal room at the Lyric Opera in downtown Chicago. Choreographer recreates 'Oklahoma!' at age 91 2013-05-02T15:19:10Z

It’s fair to say that no production in the Metropolitan Opera’s history has been more vexed than the new staging of Puccini’s “Tosca” that opened on New Year’s Eve. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Tosca’ Overcomes Months of Chaos 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

The piece she wrote is posted on the Seattle Opera blog. Seattle Opera may have the country’s only opera scholar in residence, helping make the art form more diverse and relevant 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The Minnesota Opera’s production, directed by Kevin Newbury, served the work as well as possible, particularly in the fast pacing through most of the first act. Music Review: ‘Doubt,’ Adaptation Performed by Minnesota Opera 2013-02-03T23:24:03Z

For the second year in a row, Polina Semionova, a principal dancer at American Ballet Theater, is withdrawing from its spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House, the company announced this week. Polina Semionova Withdraws From American Ballet Theater’s 2016 Spring Season 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Other music events include a preview of Mr. Adès’s opera “The Exterminating Angel,” based on the Luis Buñuel film, which will have its New York premiere in October at the Metropolitan Opera. Peek at New John Adams Opera in Guggenheim’s Performance Series 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

The company’s board, whose chairman is Roy G. Niederhoffer, an investment manager who was a member of the old City Opera board, now has 10 members and is looking to expand. New York City Opera, on the Rebound With a Boost From Bernstein 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

It begins on Monday with Opera and Literature. Around Town for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But perhaps the best argument for visiting Munich right now is the Bavarian State Opera, which has emerged as one of the most exciting opera houses in Europe. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and then rejected, Rufus Wainwright's "Prima Donna" will be staged by the New York City Opera in the spring of 2012. Rufus Wainwright's 'Prima Donna' at NY City Opera 2010-12-08T03:01:00Z

Opera is more associated with the south – think of Molly Bloom and all the opera references in James Joyce – and especially with Wexford, a magnet for connoisseurs of rare repertoire. NI Opera Shorts – review 2012-07-07T23:05:46Z

This holiday season, the Royal Ballet principal dancer will be appearing in a production of “Coppelia” at London’s Royal Opera House. Ballerina Francesca Hayward leaps from stage to screen in 'Cats' 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

“An American in Paris,” “Kinky Boots,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and “The King and I.” 'Wicked' Reclaims Its Spot as No. 2 on Broadway, Overtaking 'Hamilton' 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

With ticket sales currently averaging about 90 percent of capacity in the 3,500-seat Civic Opera House, Mason feels confident in raising the number of performances to 72 from 68. Lyric Opera plays it safe upcoming season 2011-02-01T19:28:52Z

Sting acted on Broadway in a 1989 production of "The Threepenny Opera." Sting joining cast of his Broadway musical 'The Last Ship' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

The impact may hardly be felt at places like the Metropolitan Opera, established regional theaters or other large organizations that rely primarily on loyal donors and ticket revenues to underwrite their budgets. States Slash Arts Funds, Sometimes to Zero 2011-08-01T12:00:03Z

Which is what the orchestra, chorus and soloists of the Royal Opera performed, albeit in the expanded Mozart orchestration. The Royal Opera on tour in Japan 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

Why has she not performed since 2008 at the Metropolitan Opera, where she had acclaimed runs over several seasons? What’s Keeping One of Opera’s Greatest Sopranos From Singing? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

For 30 years, the French-Lebanese director has led the Dutch National Opera, often collaborating with artists from various disciplines. Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

The most powerful was “Lift Every Voice,” a panel of six Black singers hosted by the Los Angeles Opera at the suggestion of Ms. Bridges, who moderated. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

James Levine, the music director of the Metropolitan Opera, withdrew from a matinee performance of “Don Pasquale” on Saturday because of illness, the house said. ArtsBeat: Levine Misses ?Don Pasquale? Matinee 2011-02-19T21:16:31Z

A choir from South Africa’s Cape Town Opera will play the choral roles. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

He calls the struggling City Opera’s decision in 2009 to make George Steel its general manager, though he had never run a comparably large institution, “nothing short of stupefying.” Reynold Levy’s New Book Names Names, Including the Met and Peter Gelb 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Despite Opera North's excellent production in 1992, this queasy study of the ageing Elizabeth I, and her infatuation with the young Earl of Essex, has always seemed blighted. Gloriana; 66th Aldeburgh festival – review 2013-06-22T23:05:50Z

Opera companies aren’t as free to rewrite the works they present, but a sense of historical distance wouldn’t hurt. Lost stars on stage for Washington National Opera 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Interestingly, "Wordless" got its start as a performance for the Sydney Opera House at the end of 2013. Moment of Friday: Comics artist Art Spiegelman is bananas for vaudeville 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

In the hands of Philippe Auguin, the Washington National Opera Orchestra sounded suddenly much better and more focused than it did on opening night of “Carmelites” two weeks ago. At WNO, strong ‘Dutchman’ cast makes up for production’s deficits 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

This month, you might feel the momentum in classical music swinging to the domestic festival circuit, with splashy premieres and revivals coming courtesy of Spoleto, Ojai and the Opera Theater of St. Louis. Two Gems of June: Premieres at Carnegie Hall and Harlem School of the Arts 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

Before Mercury died, however, he told Montserrat Caballe he always wanted to sing the aria from Phantom of the Opera with her. Freddie Mercury 30 years on – remembering the theatrical, eccentric genius 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

This year’s installment will run Feb. 3 to 17 at Opera America’s National Opera Center. Excerpts From 'The Shining' Opera Among Offerings at Vocal Music Festival 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

She danced there for several years, departing after a contentious casting decision that put her at the center of a battle between Gustav Mahler, then director of the Opera, and a ballet master, Josef Hassreiter. Dancing by Herself: When the Waltz Went Solo 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

We see the Opera Theater of St. Louis and Long Beach Opera and Opera Philadelphia involved with community and creating new works by composers of color; that’s been a great trend. ‘The Central Park Five,’ in song: composer Anthony Davis on his new opera 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

La Traviata Through Dec. 29, and returning in April with a different conductor and cast at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan; 212-362-6000, metopera.org. Review: ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Met Opera 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

So many of my colleagues are privileged to work with the chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, why not me? After 24 Years, a Conductor Returns to the Met Opera 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Having set an impossibly high standard for American criticism, Porter returned to London, in 1992, and carried on writing for various publications, including the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, and Opera. Postscript: Andrew Porter (1928-2015) 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Still, the production that Seattle Opera will present later this month might well strike even the most seasoned fan as a freshly discovered Verdi opera. New take on old favorite: ‘La traviata’ at Seattle Opera 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

A principal with the Bolshoi as well as a guest artist with Ballet Theater, Ms. Osipova spoke through a translator at the Metropolitan Opera House. Bob or Bun? A Ballerina?s Tough Choice 2011-06-17T16:00:04Z

It opened last week at Sydney Opera House The festival will also feature work from Samoa, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, the US and New Zealand alongside a wide repertoire of work from Europe. Edinburgh festival will reflect clash of cultures 2010-03-17T19:47:00Z

Opera’s general director, called working with Neumeier “a longstanding dream” for his company. L.A. Opera plans production with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Joffrey Ballet and Hamburg State Opera 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

She is, in other words, perfectly cast as a swaggering fighter pilot turned dissociating drone operator in “Grounded,” which Washington National Opera premiered on Saturday at the Kennedy Center. Review: An Opera About Drones Brings a Pilot’s War Home 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

She had been too busy appearing at San Francisco Opera’s centennial concert, rushing to Munich to sing Desdemona in Verdi’s “Otello” and flying to Santa Fe to star in Dvorak’s “Rusalka.” The Soprano Ailyn Pérez Doesn’t Feel Like a Beginner Anymore 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z

Washington National Opera is also presenting Kurt Weill’s “Lost in the Stars” Feb. 12 through 20 at the Kennedy Center. ‘Lost in the Stars’: Musical’s title song has staying power 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

But its decision to become a co-commissioner of “Proving Up,” along with Washington National Opera and Opera Omaha, suggests a new level of ambition. A New ‘Horror Opera’ Opens Miller Theater’s Next Season 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

The questions above came up at the opening event of the Metropolitan Opera’s season in September, when a new production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” was performed. Gustavo Dudamel and Valery Gergiev Face National Issues 2014-04-03T12:00:01Z

As the boss of Scottish Opera in the 1990s, her financial management was heavily criticised by a government report. Who should take over at the Royal Opera House? 2012-11-23T12:01:00Z

"What a huge honor to win Woman of the Year," she said as she accepted her award late Tuesday at London's Royal Opera House. Kim Kardashian dresses up and strips down, all for British GQ 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Starting in 2002 she collaborated with the conductor Christian Curnyn on a series of Handel works for his Early Opera Company. Netia Jones, Making Maurice Sendak’s Creatures Sing 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z

She also cultivates 18th- and 19th-century operatic repertoire from Mozart to Meyerbeer, at prominent houses such as Zurich Opera and the Paris Opera. Lea Desandre Gives a Modern Voice to Early Music 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

The Juilliard Opera is offering, essentially, Mr. Bicket’s version, with his ideas regarding scoring, assignment of vocal parts and, most crucial, trims. Music Review: Bad Guys Singing Of Love And Power 2010-11-19T05:30:00Z

How does this project fit into Heartbeat Opera’s body of work? After Transforming Classics, an Opera Company Tries a Premiere 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

In Edinburgh, another orchestra has been in the news for the wrong reasons: that of Scottish Opera, which played in a concert performance of Puccini's La fanciulla del West last Monday. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

She also served as an administrator with San Francisco Opera. Seattle Opera names Christina Scheppelmann as its new leader 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Singers from the New York City Opera will perform a Pride concert on June 18. 25 Free Performances Come to Bryant Park Starting in June 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Their greatest legacy remains "The Threepenny Opera," a 1928 musical play that both critiqued and enraptured Weimar Germany. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

This imaginative evening isn’t a dream sequence — it’s time once again for the annual Prague Opera Ball, scheduled this year for Feb. 5. In Transit: Dance the Night Away at Prague Opera Ball 2011-02-03T11:00:10Z

Mr. Copley has long been a mainstay at both the Royal Opera House and the English National Opera in London and has also had a prominent international career. Met Opera Fires Stage Director, Citing ‘Inappropriate Behavior’ 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

The Royal Opera House in London posted a statement from the Vickers family saying the cause was Alzheimer’s disease, but it did not specify where or when he died. Jon Vickers, Opera Star Known for His Raw Power and Intensity, Dies at 88 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

The house is also offering an installment of the Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now festival, “Toxic Poems,” by the Slovenian vocal theater company Carmina Slovenica. Sarah Kane Play Among Offerings at St. Ann's Warehouse 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

This season Mr. Levine, who now conducts from a wheelchair, took on a full schedule at the Metropolitan Opera House, where he is the music director. Levine Withdraws From Verbier Festival 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

He is the music director of the venerable Paris Opera — and inspired the wild-haired maestro protagonist of the Amazon series “Mozart in the Jungle.” Will Gustavo Dudamel Be New York’s New Bernstein? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Opera North is among the "new production" nominees. London hosts first 'opera Oscars', but UK doesn't make top award shortlist 2013-04-06T23:06:06Z

New York audiences will have the rare opportunity to experience his work in late March during a guest performance of the Bavarian State Opera, which he has led since 2013. Meet the New Generation Leading Berlin’s Classical Scene 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

The City Opera orchestra sounded a bit raggedy and out of its element in the Rameau. Review: Ahead of ‘My Fair Lady,’ Two Operatic Pygmalions 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Around 160,000 viewers watched a streamed performance of “Carmen” last year by the Berlin State Opera, whose auditorium seats 1,300. When Europe’s Theaters Reopen, Will Fans Return? 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

And in a new production that opened Saturday night in San Pedro, Long Beach Opera has breathed valuable new life into a startlingly timely illumination of the American experience. 'Hydrogen Jukebox' a timely illumination of the American experience 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

It’s because the impassioned singers, the clever staging and the imaginative sets are so consistently engaging that Seattle Opera’s performance just speeds by. Seattle Opera’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ unleashes gloriously perfect storm 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

The centrepiece was a performance of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, nimbly illustrated by dancers from the Vienna State Opera Ballet. TV highlights: 08/07/2011 2011-07-07T20:59:01Z

This is the case with “Whipped Cream,” the evening-length story ballet that asks you to care deeply about pastries and pralines, which American Ballet Theatre is performing at the Kennedy Center Opera House. American Ballet Theatre’s ‘Whipped Cream’: A fleeting sugar high 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

As London’s “second” opera house, ENO was always competing for audiences with the much-better funded Royal Opera House, just a few blocks away, he added. For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-23 season may well have been the end of an era. Is It the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera? 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

As Glass’ friendliest major American opera company, Los Angeles Opera mounts this acclaimed new production, created by the English National Opera. 11 don't-miss classical picks: 'Breaking the Waves,' John Adams' 70th, Philip Glass' 'Akhnaten' 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s and ’70s she was a freelance writer, contributing articles on film, theater and television to The New York Times, Soap Opera Digest and other publications. Lee Israel, a Writer Proudest of Her Literary Forgeries, Dies at 75 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

His upcoming production of Halvy’s “La Juive” at Bavarian State Opera will inevitably invite controversy, and the company will bravely stream the opening performance, June 26, live on its website. A 'Carmen' in San Francisco breaks down barriers 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

These musicians, who are also members of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, were nowhere more at home than in the sounds of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, as distilled by Mr. Maazel. Music Review: Lorin Maazel Leads the Vienna Philharmonic 2012-03-05T23:22:05Z

It takes six tenors and one phenomenal soprano to perform Gioachino Rossini's "Armida," which helps explain why the Metropolitan Opera didn't get around to mounting this glorious work for 193 years. Review: Fleming, 6 tenors lead rare Rossini at Met 2010-04-13T14:31:00Z

Of the core repertory, the 25 or 30 titles at the center of the Metropolitan Opera’s history, none has been absent from its stage longer than Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

“Opera and theater were, and still are, a safe place for open-minded creative people from both communities, a defense against all the sectarian problems,” she added. Beleaguered English National Opera Announces New Artistic Director 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

The czarist-era Ballet and Opera Theater, built in the late 1870s, features Russian standards and world class ballet. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z

On Saturday afternoons, Mr. Vickers was captivated by the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. Jon Vickers, Opera Star Known for His Raw Power and Intensity, Dies at 88 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Decades earlier, he appeared off Broadway in “The Threepenny Opera” and had a prominent role on Broadway as a bookie in “Bells Are Ringing.” Eddie Lawrence, Comedian, Actor and Pitchman, Is Dead at 95 2014-03-31T00:10:54Z

So Sunday’s show was the first back-to-normal black-tie version — glamorous gowns, red carpet, and a sold-out Opera House. Biden’s presence at the Kennedy Center Honors signals to many a return to tradition and normalcy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

The Vienna State Opera is not exactly a go-to place for cutting-edge contemporary art: Inaugurated a century and a half ago, it is housed in an ornate edifice with gilded and velvet interiors. An Opera House Gives Contemporary Art a Major Role 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Marc A. Scorca, the president and chief executive of Opera America, a service organization, said that there have been concerns in the industry that weakening subscription sales could lead to safer programming choices. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Opera looms large as a point of cultural pride, even if many cultural commentators say that the glory of Italian opera is a memory. Strikes Silence Italy?s Opera Houses 2010-05-04T23:05:00Z

Following the Mariinsky Ballet's season at the Royal Opera House, the company's orchestra sidled over to Kensington to perform one of the highlights of its Covent Garden programme at the – minus the dancers. Prom 42: Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre/Gergiev 2011-08-16T11:10:01Z

Most of them featured experiments with sculptural concrete, each more dazzling than the next; more evocative of the Sydney Opera House or J.F.K.’s TWA Terminal than the Rubik’s cubes of Lincoln Center. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

“Body and Soul,” which premiered at the Palais Garnier on Saturday, is Ms. Pite’s second work for the Paris Opera Ballet. Review: Crystal Pite’s Disjointed ‘Body and Soul’ in Paris 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

If Tuesday night’s premiere at the Metropolitan Opera was any indication, the answer is: effortlessly. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

The Met's staging is a co-production with London's English National Opera, which unveiled the new production two years ago to little controversy. Metropolitan Opera braces for 'Death of Klinghoffer' opening 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The production originated with the Washington National Opera, but it was unable to finish the cycle because of financial troubles. Zambello advises National Opera as Domingo departs 2011-05-25T15:06:10Z

For all of the dearly departed New York City Opera’s contributions to American culture, the 30 or so new operas it presented were never really among them. Copeland’s ‘The Tender Land’ Is Revived by Chelsea Opera 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

One of the boldest things about Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn’s “Hamlet,” which runs at the Metropolitan Opera through June 9, is the way that it treats some of the most famous lines in English. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

The district that will be walled-in lies on the city’s downtown Unter den Linden boulevard and will include the famous State Opera building. Art group to build a temporary Berlin Wall in German capital 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Their voices really do come from beyond the grave, or to be exact, from Berlin in 1928, when the original “Threepenny Opera” opened there, making sounds the world had never heard before. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z

There is never a shortage of backstage drama at the Metropolitan Opera. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Michael Moxham's straightforward production for New Sussex Opera offers a welcome opportunity for reassessment. Hugh the Drover ? review 2010-11-23T22:40:00Z

If the company pulls it off, it might be that Opera North's austerity Ring marks a paradigm shift in Wagnerian performance. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z

Now 57, she got the idea for “Woman” when she was given a story about the theft by Keith Cerny, the Dallas Opera’s general director. Higdon opera for Philadelphia to have 3 different endings 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

For the Metropolitan Opera — which relies heavily on singers, directors and other artists who live and work around the world — the coronavirus crisis poses special challenges. From Coughing Fits to Closings, Cultural World Girds for Coronavirus 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Cohen said in an interview at the War Memorial Opera House, where he was finishing a June run of performances as Medoro in Handel’s “Orlando.” A high-voiced rising star at 25 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

He wrote the part of the medium with City Opera’s longtime house diva, the soprano Lauren Flanigan, in mind, and she can still deliver the dramatic goods. Spring Performance: Music : Donizetti and Schwartz Fill Out Opera Program 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z

‘GUILLAUME TELL’ Performed in October for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera in its original French, Rossini’s final opera was imposingly cast — and conducted, with his usual lucidity, by Fabio Luisi. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

New York City Opera presented a program of three such works this spring and, perhaps significantly, George Steel, City Opera’s general manager and artistic director, was seen at “Émilie” on Friday. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z

In 2011 he was named artistic director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet, in Vilnius, though he says his role is more advisory than hands-on. Polish National Ballet takes steps to prove ‘we are a changing society’ 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Opera has never had a wider or more anarchic reach. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

First seen at the Aldeburgh festival last month, Mahogany Opera's production of Britten's church parables has transferred to Southwark Cathedral, where it now forms part of the composer's centenary celebrations at this year's . The Prodigal Son/The Burning Fiery Furnace – review 2013-07-07T17:20:00Z

In a season dogged by wave after wave of the coronavirus, there were moments when the Metropolitan Opera was on the verge of cancellation. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Met’s Technology to Get With the Program In the Metropolitan Opera production of Berlioz’s “Troyens” two harnessed dancers representing Dido and Aeneas take flight in an aerial ballet. Metropolitan Opera Embarks on $60 Million Renovation 2012-12-05T23:10:28Z

“Regina” went on to be staged with great success by many opera companies, notably City Opera. Brenda Lewis, Versatile American Soprano, Is Dead at 96 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

New York City Opera’s production of Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West,” which opened on Wednesday at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center, may not be great. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

But never, ever, imply that Fabio Luisi is preparing to take on one of opera’s most important jobs: music director of the Metropolitan Opera. On Deck,The Met?s Pinch-Hitter 2011-04-21T13:39:32Z

The composer of the opera "Dead Man Walking" thinks it's alive and kicking — he even uses an unprintable term to describe a recent batch of articles declaring that "Opera is dead." Opera is here to stay, says 'Dead Man Walking' composer Jake Heggie 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Five years later, Long Beach Opera mounted a tantalizing but uneven production. Akhnaten as you've never seen him: How L.A. Opera delivers Philip Glass' Egyptian Pharaoh tale 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

“She gets the underlying emotional pain of it,” said Patrick Summers, who conducted Ms. Barton in her first Fricka performances at the Houston Grand Opera last year. Jamie Barton, Opera’s Nose-Studded Rock Star, Returns to the Met 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

In fact, there is no curtain at all in the staging that opened at the Metropolitan Opera on New Year's Eve. Poplavskaya rules in Decker's 'Traviata' 2011-01-01T17:36:07Z

He was replaced by George Steel, an impresario and conductor from the Dallas Opera. Board of troubled NYC Opera meets to talk future 2011-05-19T16:51:18Z

La Piccola Opera, meaning opera in miniature, specializes in simple stagings, sung and narrated in English, that introduce this musical tradition in less than an hour. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:21:44Z

Judging from Mr. Holten’s experience, running the Royal Opera is not an easy job. Oliver Mears Takes a Big Leap to the Royal Opera 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The Doctor's Tale is part of OperaShots, the Royal Opera House's initiative to bring fresh musical talent to opera, and this year the former Police drummer Stewart Copeland is joining Dudley in taking the plunge. The Doctor's Tale: Barking up the right tree 2011-03-31T20:45:01Z

Opera doesn’t need to be obviously relevant to be important. Review | Tackling race in opera — at center stage 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

“Opera is the most beautiful and total of art forms, and it sparks every fiber of your being as well as provokes all of your thoughts and fantasies,” he said. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

But the work’s ambition is par for the course for the young Opera Philadelphia, whose season also includes a setting of Verdi’s “Macbeth” in war-torn Africa and Rossini’s “Tancredi,” starring the redoubtable Stephanie Blythe. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Under Mr. Levine, the musicians, including the elegant young pianist Bryan Wagorn, an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, played with color and confidence. Review: Met Chamber Ensemble Salutes Boulez With a Less Complicated Piece Than Planned 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

The Jerome Robbins Award, an annual acknowledgement of excellence in the arts, will go this year to the Paris Opera Ballet, the Jerome Robbins Foundation announced on Tuesday. ArtsBeat: Paris Opera Ballet Wins Jerome Robbins Award 2014-03-18T12:26:43Z

Lord Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera House, also praised the reforms. The budget and tax breaks for arts philanthropy 2011-03-23T17:25:53Z

The Paris Opera needed something to compete – something new, shocking and exciting. Colette's libretto: a fantasy of childhood for Ravel's opera of enchantment 2012-07-27T21:49:01Z

In its New York premiere, the reconstituted New York City Opera is presenting the work, which opened on Thursday in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Review: A Mariachi Opera Addresses Roiling Issues of Immigration 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

At the Metropolitan Opera, that means moving tons of scenery day and night. Hey, Stars, Be Nice to the Stagehands. You Might Need a Loan. 2013-12-28T02:11:03Z

"Charpentier really needed the period-instrument movement to start to be fully recognized," says the conductor, who will soon conduct his first Rameau opera, "Castor et Pollux," at the English National Opera. COT gives 'Medea' a modern makeover 2011-04-20T15:43:54Z

The Oliviers take place at the Royal Opera House in London on 12 April. Musicals lead Olivier nominations 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Born into a family of musicians in Riga, Mr Nelsons began his career as a trumpeter in the Latvian National Opera Orchestra before studying conducting. Orchestra music director to leave 2013-10-02T17:55:50Z

An earlier version of this article misstated the relationship of English National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera to the new opera “Marnie.” Nico Muhly on His New Opera and Women’s ‘Pressurized’ Lives 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

He was bitten by the performing bug at age 13, before his voice had even changed, when Hawaii Opera Theater was looking to amplify its men’s chorus for a production of “Aida.” Hawaiian Baritone Making His Mark in Verdi 2013-11-25T16:28:51Z

In her acting debut, Barbeau, a professional ballerina at the Paris Opera Ballet, is mesmerizing in motion, and her training is obvious; she points her toes even while jogging. ‘Rise’ Review: Step, Repeat, Recover 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

When her performance opened the Sadler’s Wells Ballet’s season at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1949, it became a yardstick for local ballet, the standard to which dancers in New York aspired. Critic’s Notebook: That ’40s Pas de Deux? You Can Still Catch It 2013-08-28T21:52:03Z

Lord Hall took up his position as Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House in April 2001. Tony Hall is new BBC director general - live coverage 2012-11-22T12:22:00Z

Ms. Gordon’s tryout for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet consisted of lots of waiting, performing for 72 seconds and a “better luck next time” speech. Taylor Gordon, Freelance Ballerina, Chases Her Dream 2010-07-16T16:49:00Z

Beauty and uniformity are no small matters at the Paris Opera Ballet, which opens a 12-performance run at the David H. Koch Theater on Wednesday after stops in Chicago and Washington. Paris Opera Ballet Visits U.S. for First Time Since ’96 2012-07-08T03:53:12Z

She sang as a guest artist with the San Francisco Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Vienna Volksoper, the Zurich Opera and other companies. Brenda Lewis, Versatile American Soprano, Is Dead at 96 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

You might like to check out Opera Santa Barbara’s recent colorblind casting of Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

When I meet Mr. Brook in August, he is lodged for the summer in temporary quarters, away from his usual home near the Paris Opera. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Christopher Rountree, Long Beach Opera’s music director, conducts an ensemble of nine, but often the instrumental textures are sparer than even those modest forces. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

Dudamel’s two-year tenure will be one of the shortest in the Paris Opera’s recent history. Gustavo Dudamel, Star Maestro, to Resign From Paris Opera 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Silent movie The Artist came out on top at the 65th Baftas at London's Royal Opera House. In pictures: Baftas 2012 2012-02-12T23:40:19Z

Seattle Opera invites the community to unleash the diva within at a free, all-levels-welcome singalong in celebration of Wagner’s 200th birthday and the August performances of the “Ring” cycle. Seattle Opera stages Wagner singalong on May 22 2013-05-17T19:38:22Z

A few noteworthy World War I commemorations in the Washington area: “Silent Night” runs at the Washington National Opera through Nov. 25. Perspective | Did you want to commemorate Armistice Day? Classical music thinks you should. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

In a departure from its usual venue, the Center House Theatre, the troupe mounted the Brecht-Weill musical "The Threepenny Opera" on the broader stage of the Intiman Playhouse. A spooky, dreamy 'Midsummer' to spread its wings 2011-10-20T20:16:08Z

That could be a description of Philip Glass’s opera “Satyagraha,” which was an unlikely hit when the Metropolitan Opera’s perfect production was revived in the fall. Mussorgsky?s ?Khovanshchina? Comes to Met Opera 2012-02-24T20:07:06Z

In 1955 Anderson became the first African-American to sing in an opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Calm operatic voice for civil rights 2014-04-09T07:07:48Z

Losing him to London was Galina’s greatest sacrifice, and she fell into a long depression before beginning a new life for herself as wardrobe mistress at Kiev’s National Opera. Sergei Polunin’s Dance Mom 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s, accessibility issues were an afterthought, and to this day getting to a bathroom at the Sydney Opera House is not easy. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

The staging is being broadcast to movie theaters around the world as part of the Royal Opera House's cinema program. 'William Tell' controversy over rape scene draws response from Placido Domingo 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Lloyd Webber has seen a few of his musicals turned into movies -- "Evita," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Jesus Christ Superstar." 'Cats' to be revived in London, and maybe made into movie too 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Continues through May 13 at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan; metopera.org. Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

A year later City Opera chose that production and that tenor to open the first of what would be 17 seasons for opera-starved L.A. at the Music Center. How Plácido Domingo taught L.A. to love opera 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Behold the carousel of leading performers in “The Phantom of the Opera” early in its current Kennedy Center run. Cast changes in ‘Hamilton’ aren’t like breaking up the band 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Almost all the 150-plus dancers in the Paris company are trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School with admittance to the corps de ballet decided by an annual competition. "Black Swan" choreographer named dance director of Paris ballet 2013-01-25T00:02:09Z

On Friday night I attended Berg’s “Wozzeck,” a revival of the Santa Fe Opera’s haunting, spare 2001 production by the director Daniel Slater. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z

“Opera, dance, ballet, museums, everything,” Todd said on a phone call from his Los Angeles home, where he’s been quarantined. Tony Todd on the Joy of ‘Candyman,’ and the Role of Black Horror 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, April 9, at the Cologne Opera in Germany, the Australian composer Liza Lim unveils her opera “Tree of Codes,” which includes snippets of a Turkish whistling language from a small mountain village. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan National Company lasted only two seasons, but Ms. Niska was soon hired by the New York City Opera and made her company debut as Countess Almaviva in “The Marriage of Figaro.” Maralin Niska, Lyric Soprano at New York City Opera Who Won Hearts, Dies at 89 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

It served him well over a six-decade career in which roles ranged from Napoleon Bonaparte — whom he played twice — to the Phantom of the Opera. Pink Panther Actor Herbert Lom Dead at 95 2012-09-27T16:17:21Z

He made his American debut with “Crime and Punishment” at Arena Stage in Washington in and staged a production of “Lulu” at the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1987. Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Stage Director, Dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Technically, one of the more gratifying elements is the sharpness of the amplification: The Opera House has in years past been an acoustic graveyard; it’s where lyrics go to die. Review | ‘Hadestown’ ushers Broadway back to the Kennedy Center in style 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Rutter said she is also considering using the Opera House stage as the site of chamber music concerts. Kennedy Center cancels most of schedule through 2020 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Before the performance on Wednesday, Michael Capasso, City Opera’s general director, touted this collaborative approach as economical. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

You also wrote the libretto of an opera version of "Doubt" that Minnesota Opera premiered in 2013. John Patrick Shanley gets his Irish up with 'Outside Mullingar' 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera survived a brutal fiscal year in 2009, losing tens of millions of dollars on Wall Street while expenses kept climbing, according to tax returns filed this week. NY's Metropolitan Opera reports 2009 fiscal woes 2010-06-17T01:24:00Z

But who wouldn’t, given the great Vienna State Opera Orchestra? Music Review: ‘Eugene Onegin’ at the Vienna State Opera 2013-04-18T21:56:33Z

Ms. Later, 29, is a senior director for development at Lyric Opera Chicago, a performing arts company. Katherine Later, Jack Godshall 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

Perhaps there is too much in “Opera” to take in on a single viewing. Dance Review: Choreographer Works Magic With Latest Ballet 2013-12-20T13:13:20Z

Opera is an art form often scheduled up to five years in advance, but booking Mr. Domingo comes with obvious risks. Plácido Domingo, Opera Superstar, Achieves the Unthinkable: 150 Roles 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Yet the frontrunner emerged from the awards – which took place in the Royal Opera House and were hosted by Stephen Fry – with just one gong: for Daniel Day-Lewis's performance as the president. Happy days for Les Miserables … and Argo 2013-02-10T21:28:00Z

It wasn’t so long ago this season — just January — that the Metropolitan Opera’s programming was about as classic as it gets: tried-and-true works by Verdi, Puccini and Mozart. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

As a child growing up in the suburbs of New York City, he also auditioned for, and landed some, children’s roles in Broadway shows and at the Metropolitan Opera. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gergiev, who is also conducting “The Nose” at the Metropolitan Opera,” drives his singers and players hard. Music Review | Mariinsky Theater Orchestra: At Carnegie, Gergiev Fosters Teamwork for Berlioz ?Troyens? 2010-03-12T00:22:00Z

The popularity of Peking Opera is declining, and future opera stars may never be as popular as Ms. Zhang. Zhang Huoding of Peking Opera Takes a Turn in the United States 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Beauty, hope and, above all, love are also themes in Alexei Ratmansky’s “Psyché,” created for the Paris Opera Ballet in 2011, and currently being performed for the first time since its initial run. Tanztheater Wuppertal Stages ‘Palermo’; Ratmansky Returns to Paris Opera 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

He said the consuming nature of his job at the Paris Opera was preventing him from what he loved most — “artistic creation and expression.” L.A. Dance Project lands three-year residency in Arles, France 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

The lucky chosen fans snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef, surfed at Bondi Beach and explored the rugged Outback before Tuesday's grand send-off: two star-studded shows taped on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. After Australia tour, Winfrey vacations in Fiji 2010-12-19T13:31:05Z

She reprised the role for her Metropolitan Opera and La Scala debuts in 1961 — it was for this that the Italian press dubbed her "La Stupenda" — and never really looked back. Obituary: Soprano Joan Sutherland was opera legend 2010-10-12T03:18:00Z

Larsen’s future has already been decided, to an extent: She has signed on to perform in Seattle Opera’s productions of “Rigoletto” and “The Consul” next season. future maestros and mezzos at the Seattle Opera 2013-03-29T21:13:56Z

This season, the Metropolitan Opera is dark more nights than in the past. Back-to-Back Premieres Defy a Season of Leaner Offerings 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

Her third opera, “Proving Up,” will be premiered in January as part of the Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative.  Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

After he contributed a risotto recipe a few years ago to a cookbook called “The Opera Cooks,” people began asking for more. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z

At McCaw Hall, where both Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet perform, two levels of boxes ascend each side of the auditorium, with seats angled toward the stage. What’s in the box? Demystifying box seats and tips on finding the best seats for the opera and symphony. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Opera didn’t start until later in my life. From mariachi tunes to operatic arias 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

On Monday next week, there's now the chance to enjoy life behind the scenes at the Royal Opera: 10 hours of uninterrupted programming, including rehearsals and much more, starting at 10:30am GMT. Royal Opera Live: an exclusive behind-the-scenes live stream 2013-01-03T14:04:08Z

This now seems to be the template for City Opera: to offer four productions each season with the hope of expanding in the future. Critic’s Notebook: City Opera Might Do Best at City Center 2013-04-26T23:56:25Z

With a libretto by Ms. Proulx, it was originally intended for New York City Opera, but opened elsewhere when that company went bankrupt. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

In terms of style and tone, “Opera” is a departure for the director: Gone are the flashy colors and claustrophobia-inducing corridors and secret passageways. ‘Suspiria’: Stream the Original and 8 Other Italian Horror Classics 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The play was brought to his attention by Herta Glaz, a retired mezzo-soprano who was director of the New Haven Opera Theater in Connecticut. Lewis Spratlan, Who Took Winding Route to Music Pulitzer, Dies at 82 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

But when she reprised that role for Mary Zimmerman’s 2010 production of the work at the Metropolitan Opera, which returned last month, she had to compromise technically on the coloratura passagework in this demanding music. Music Review: Words or Music: Why Choose? 2011-03-29T22:23:23Z

Since the opera house went dark, it has posted a free stream from its vast Met Opera On Demand library every night. How the Met Opera Is Throwing a Gala Concert With Smartphones 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

This rewarding performance, the first in a run of three, represented the latest collaboration between Juilliard Opera and the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Review: Bellini’s ‘La Sonnambula,’ Sung by Promising Young Voices 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

What chance now the company putting on a Ring cycle, a Trojans, a Meistersinger, productions that defined Scottish Opera as an internationally important opera house? The band plays on ? part-time ? but Scottish Opera is sinking 2010-09-17T11:04:00Z

He played early on with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and became a cellist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, performing with it from 1952 to 1969, when the Concentus became central to his activities. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor and Early-Music Specialist, Dies at 86 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Members of arts boards don't have nearly as many opportunities to be applauded as the performers whose work they support, but the chance has arrived for Sue Bienkowski, longtime board president of Long Beach Opera. Long Beach Opera leader wins national award for opera trustees 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Shilvock, who worked with Mr. Gockley at the Houston Grand Opera and followed him to San Francisco, already runs some of the thorniest operations in the opera house. San Francisco Opera Picks Matthew Shilvock, an Insider, to Be Its Leader 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The couple’s generosity, continued by Mrs. Rubinstein, made possible the continued survival and many creative initiatives of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Opera, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Chamber Music Society and several other arts organizations. Gladys Rubinstein, benefactor of arts in Seattle, dies at 92 2014-01-27T23:35:39Z

The baton does not pass often at the Metropolitan Opera, which is facing challenging times. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Will Shake Things Up at the Met Opera 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

“Séance” was presented this spring by the struggling New York City Opera. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

The eight-week repertory announced by American Ballet Theater for its annual spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House is the best news for this company in more than 25 years. Ratmansky and Lil Buck on the Spring Dance Calendar 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Opera houses accommodate their talents by raising the quotient of Russian operas, but that often means more opportunities to see “Eugene Onegin” or “Boris Godunov” rather than an expanded circle of works performed. Opera Review: Ivan the Terrible's Bride Under a Modern Moscow Sky 2011-04-26T14:30:04Z

The whole saga is being told in a new documentary, “The Opera House,” which will have its premiere on Oct. A Starburst Is Born: Watch the Building of the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Dudamel said in the interview that he would press for that conversation to continue at the Paris Opera over the long term. Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Conductor, Will Lead Paris Opera 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

This year marks the start of important new productions by the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala and the Opéra National de Paris. Review: A Promising Start to 'Ring' Cycle 2010-03-23T17:10:00Z

"Many years later, when I was working at City Opera, I conducted the same production," he recalled. L.A. Opera goes minimal with 'Dido and Aeneas,' 'Bluebeard's Castle' 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Steve Smith The long-awaited arrival of Leonard Bernstein’s opera “A Quiet Place” at the New York City Opera on Wednesday commands most of attention this week. The Week Ahead: Oct. 24-30 2010-10-24T01:00:00Z

The French-Canadian director's starkly modern and thought-provoking staging, first seen last year in Lyon, France, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on Friday night. Striking new look for 'Parsifal' at Met in NYC 2013-02-17T18:46:05Z

A former Seattle Opera Young Artist, Stonikas has developed a voice that can really thrill; she will be one of the contenders in the company’s International Wagner Competition this summer. Seattle Opera revives a gripping, polished ‘Consul’ 2014-02-24T19:05:37Z

The suspension was announced while one Broadway matinee, for the long-running “The Phantom of the Opera,” was being performed. Broadway, Symbol of New York Resilience, Shuts Down Amid Virus Threat 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

The Paris Opera will set up a selection committee to choose her successor, the release said. Paris Opera Ballet Loses Its Second Head in Six Years 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

The decision by the magazine, which is published by a Met fund-raising affiliate, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and which freely reviews companies around the world, troubles some opera experts. Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z

Puerto Rico's National Foundation for Popular Culture says she was the first woman to be a singer for a Puerto Rican orchestra and the first popular music interpreter booked by New York's Metropolitan Opera House. Puerto Rico pioneer female singer dies at 92 2012-01-10T22:41:18Z

Opera, Mr. Lacombe said from the stage, is one of his passions. Music Review: A New Leader Brings Along Some Old Favorites 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z

This work uses dancers from Mr. McGregor’s company and the Paris Opera Ballet, an unusual combination that, along with its illustrious collaborators, helped build excitement. Review: ‘Tree of Codes’ Flaunts Jaw-Dropping Effects 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

For starters, 15 or so are routinely locked up with long-running shows like “The Phantom of the Opera,” which has kept the Majestic Theater off the market for 22 years. Plays Vie for Scarce Space in Broadway Theaters 2010-04-30T22:24:00Z

The Washington National Opera’s production of “Dialogues of the Carmelites” runs at the Kennedy Center Opera House from Feb. 21 to March 10. Mezzo Dolora Zajick possesses enthusiasm as big as her voice 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kramer’s sudden departure is the latest high-profile resignation to trouble the English National Opera, one of the two main opera companies in London. Daniel Kramer Quits at English National Opera 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

“The Flood” is a collaboration of Opera Columbus and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. Opera, orchestra team up to tell story of deadly 1913 flood 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Stein had dropped hints in an interview with Opera News, which is published by the Metropolitan Opera Guild and was already in print. Met?s Replacement Gets in Tune 2010-09-21T22:09:00Z

Lang will relocate to Cardiff to join the Welsh National Opera in July 2019 — and enjoy being closer to his family, which includes his mother, now 93. Seattle Opera head Aidan Lang to step down in 2019 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

The Lyric Opera has little to worry about on that front. Music Review: ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at Lyric Opera of Kansas City - Review 2011-11-14T22:14:30Z

Opera Philadelphia announced Tuesday the launch of a new opera festival at the start of its 2017-2018 season. Opera Philadelphia announces new festival for 2017 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

He was 12 when his mom took him to audition for the children’s chorus in a Fulton Opera House production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” Recent theater grad orchestrates new musical, ‘Cloak and Dagger,’ at Signature Theatre

Running and building up New Zealand Opera as a national company, Lang emphasizes, has meant being hands-on with every department. Seattle Opera’s new general director: Aidan Lang 2013-06-19T22:23:22Z

The Northern Ireland Opera has staged 16 productions to date; the Royal Opera put on seven new productions in the 2014-15 season alone. Oliver Mears Takes a Big Leap to the Royal Opera 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The Vienna State Opera didn't elaborate on the circumstances surrounding Welser-Möst's departure. Franz Welser-Most abruptly resigns from Vienna State Opera 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Dancers are stretching in the stalls of London's Royal Opera House. Lauren Cuthbertson: 'There are no Black Swan moments in this ballet' 2011-02-20T00:05:40Z

Opera would be a natural fit for the piece because the story is set mostly in the L.A. area. 'The Perfect American,' controversial opera about Walt Disney, to get U.S. premiere at Long Beach 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Q. My husband is currently working at the Metropolitan Opera, and I will be visiting him from Toronto. Hey, Mr. Critic: City Foodie Tours for Teenagers and Adults Alike 2011-03-24T16:02:56Z

Less can be more when it comes to Wagner, and Opera North's "austerity Ring" – now on its second instalment in its second year – continues to enthral and amaze. Die Walküre – review 2012-06-17T16:01:30Z

The Arizona Opera won its grant for a program meant to find opera fans in the Hispanic community, by way of school programs and a Spanish marketing program in Tucson and Phoenix. ArtsBeat: Opera America Program to Aid 13 American Companies 2013-04-30T15:44:20Z

The day he and City Opera parted ways, the company called again, and three weeks later he agreed to take the position in Madrid. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z

The Portrait, given its UK premiere by Opera North, is gripping, intelligent drama with fine individual moments. The Portrait - review 2011-02-03T16:56:25Z

Opera, which contributed the small chorus and excellent young singers from its artist-training program. 'Alice in Wonderland' at Disney Hall proves exhilarating 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

And the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater in Siberia canceled a coming appearance by Ms. Netrebko, saying she seemed more interested in her global career than “the fate of the motherland.” Netrebko Loses Work in Russia After Seeking Distance From Putin 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

“A History of Opera” occupies itself for many pages with questions of genre and convention, of the ambiguous division between singing and speaking. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z

He remains close to his family; Alvaro, the youngest of his three sons, accompanied him to the City Opera celebration. Plácido Domingo Defies the Gravity of Age 2014-03-07T15:00:03Z

Despite his absence, the president was a big part of the first act, as his remarks from the earlier White House ceremony were screened for the black-tie guests in the Kennedy Center’s Opera House. Less pomp, more art for 2015 Kennedy Center Honors 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Confined to a wheelchair, he was unable to afford his medical expenses, which were funded by his ex-wife, Deborah Sasson, from the proceeds of her performances in an adaptation of Phantom of the Opera. Peter Hofmann obituary 2010-12-02T18:44:00Z

The tribute will include videos of interviews with the irrepressible Ms. Allen, audio clips and performances from former students and City Opera singers. Critic?s Notebook: Recalling a Revered Singer in Harlem 2011-02-27T22:42:03Z

Finding the demands of opera increasingly taxing by the late 1980s, he turned to musical theatre, making more than 300 appearances in the title role of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera in Hamburg. Peter Hofmann obituary 2010-12-02T18:44:00Z

While Seattle Opera has hosted touring productions in years past, this one originates here, with director Chris Alexander taking charge of its cast, chorus and staging. Attila the Hun invades Seattle Opera's 2011-12 season 2010-12-31T06:00:05Z

In a career that saw Bartoletti conduct into his 80s, he served as the first music director of Chicago's Lyric Opera, starting as guest conductor there in 1956, when he was relatively unknown. Italian maestro dies in Florence, famed in Chicago 2013-06-09T15:23:09Z

The Bafta winners will be announced at London's Royal Opera House on 8 February. Baftas 2015: shocks and surprises 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Sells went on to a career that included serving as the dean of students at Harvard Law School, until she left this year to become the Metropolitan Opera’s first chief diversity officer. Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’ 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

In March, Opera Australia performed La Traviata on Sydney harbour with the Opera House and harbour bridge as a backdrop. Sydney Opera House goes Broadway with South Pacific 2012-08-07T21:00:01Z

Prokofiev’s “The Fiery Angel” makes its Met premiere on Nov. 12 in a Barrie Kosky staging first seen at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera in 2015. Heggie’s `Dead Man Walking’ gets Met Opera premiere in 20-21 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Opera’s general director, and on this “Macbeth,” the company’s first production of Verdi’s first Shakespeare opera. Plácido Domingo's sound and fury in L.A. Opera's 'Macbeth' 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Zambello, 65, who is also the artistic director of Washington National Opera and an independent stage director, will have led Glimmerglass for 12 seasons when she leaves. Glimmerglass Festival Unveils Its Leader’s Final Season 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Still, like a circus impresario, Mr. Bergé gleefully pointed to the large audiences at the Bastille Opera as vindication of his stewardship. Pierre Bergé, Transformative Fashion Executive, Dies at 86 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Among them were football-themed musical The Beautiful Game and Love Never Dies, his sequel to Phantom of the Opera, which ran for a disappointing 18 months in 2010-11. Lloyd Webber's Ward musical to close 2014-02-25T09:35:50Z

His libretto for Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, in which the character of Public Opinion was clearly modelled on Margaret Thatcher, was performed by English National Opera. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z

Glass spoke ahead of the opening of The Trial - his second opera based on the writings of Franz Kafka - at the Royal Opera House. Philip Glass: My aim is to be a populist 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

A version of this article appears in print on January 29, 2014, on page C1 of the with the headline: Met Opera Reports Falling Attendance. Met Opera Reports Falling Attendance 2014-01-28T22:52:36Z

Secrets Found Online, Shared Softly Opera and technology have long had an uneasy relationship. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

But this was Mr. Warlikowski’s international breakout: It was rapturously received when it traveled to the Avignon Festival in France, and an offer to work at the Paris Opera followed. A Director Brings Cerebral, Sexy Style to Opera Classics 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Then Francesca Zambello became the artistic director of Washington National Opera in 2013 and, she recalled, was “shocked” to discover that the company had never staged an opera by Mr. Glass. Revisiting the Opera ‘Appomattox,’ in the Course of Human Events 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett claimed not to like opera, but they made one anyway, collaborating on “Neither” for the Rome Opera in 1977. Review: Contortions en Route to Resurrection in Shen Wei’s ‘Neither’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

It plays in Toledo, Ohio, this month and next spring at Zambello’s Washington company and the English National Opera in London. She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

Last Monday, the British conductor Jane Glover made her Metropolitan Opera debut, in the hardly enviable assignment of the holiday abridgment — over an hour of the score is cut — of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Female Conductors Search for Equality at Highest Level 2013-12-20T20:33:48Z

Part of Dicapo Opera Theater’s Opera for Kids series, geared to ages 4 and older, the hourlong piece will be sung in Italian but will be explained for young audiences by the director, Michael Capasso. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-07T00:13:48Z

Another night at the Metropolitan Opera, another unexpected confrontation with current events. Review: The Met’s Holiday ‘Hansel’ Is Surreal (and Timely) 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Los Angeles will later present the endearing oratorio “El Niño” and the seminal opera “Nixon in China,” which will also return to Houston Grand Opera, the site of its 1987 premiere. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Let me tell you that P & B is my favorite American Opera, among many others and definitely in my top ten of all operas. ‘Porgy and Bess’ With a White Cast Stirs Controversy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

The soprano Erin Morley is no stranger to the Metropolitan Opera, where she has been a fixture for over a decade. ‘I Savor Everything’: A Soprano’s Star Turn at the Met Opera 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

To no great effect, since the opera is sung in German, Scottish Opera's director, Harry Fehr, has restored the original names of some of the characters. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z

The Berlin State Opera’s production of Verdi’s “Macbeth” begins with the madly ambitious Lady Macbeth slowly walking over a burning battlefield, carrying a sword as she negotiates a stage littered with corpses. Anna Netrebko Returns to Berlin, Amid Protests and Some Boos 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z

Opera is so much more than just something I enjoy. Opera Lover Apologizes for Scattering Ashes and Silencing the Met 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Saturdays at 8 p.m., with additional performances at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays; Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, 212-362-6000, abt.org. Dance Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Then, last fall, City Opera folded and Mr. Mortier announced he was battling cancer. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z

Mozart’s great comedy “Le Nozze di Figaro,” which opens the Metropolitan Opera’s season on Monday, begins with hopefulness, dissolves into chaotic upheaval and, rescued at the last minute, concludes with reconciliation, peace and celebration. Season Rescued, the Met Tackles an Oddly Resonant ‘Figaro’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Christie was on hand, along with most of the show’s huge cast and producers, at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, which held the U.S. premiere of the show’s fifth season Monday night. 'Game of Thrones' Actress Says Season 5 Is 'Definitely My Favorite' 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera, housed at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and among the largest and most storied classical music venues in North America, remains open. Potential buyer of New York City Opera objects to delays 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lewis, who sang for a decade with the Metropolitan Opera and for two decades with the New York City Opera, was known for interpreting the music of living American composers. Brenda Lewis, Versatile American Soprano, Is Dead at 96 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Instead it was an intriguing song cycle in that English ballad tradition which travels from The Beggar's Opera via The Rake's Progress and Butterworth to the present. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues ? review 2011-08-20T23:06:12Z

Abiding by the District’s stricture that no more than 50 people gather, the arts center gave over the Opera House to a concert filled to only 2 percent of the auditorium’s capacity. Perspective | Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams sang at the Kennedy Center. And it turned the electricity back on. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

In addition to the performances recorded at the theater, the Joyce will stream digital programs throughout the spring, from the Paris Opera Ballet, Batsheva Dance Company, Step Afrika!, The Joyce Theater Announces Its First Full Digital Season 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Opera singers continually assess and refine their own voices, which change over time. Ren?e Fleming With the Met and Chicago?s Lyric Opera Company 2012-01-27T19:30:47Z

Hours after an Associated Press story was released Tuesday detailing the accusations, the LA Opera announced it would engage outside counsel to investigate the “concerning allegations.” LA Opera declines details on Placido Domingo investigation 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

The other rally came at the Metropolitan Opera after the final performance this season of Philip Glass’s “Satyagraha,” his 1980 work that explores the life of Gandhi. Critic's Notebook: Balcony Seats Can Help Economic Inequalities in Arts 2011-12-29T18:00:01Z

On Saturday, Washington National Opera presented “Appomattox” in what it also called a world premiere. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Taissa has crafted matching "Phantom of the Opera" type masks for Van and herself, so Van, severely scarred from the wolf attack that nearly killed her, feels more comfortable. "Yellowjackets" unapologetically follows YA logic, from the Big Dance to bitter betrayals 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

She also co-wrote the libretto for "Hopscotch: An Opera for 24 Cars," and wrote the libretto for the Los Angeles Master Chorale's oratorio "dreams of the new world" with the composer Ellen Reid. A Connection Made at the Talent Agency 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

But the State Opera has also courted controversy. Hungary Turned Far Right. That’s Meant Millions for Its Opera. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

They starred in “Girls of the Golden West” last season at San Francisco Opera; Ms. Bullock was also a standout in the recording of “Doctor Atomic” released this year. John Adams and David Lang: Masters of the Modern Holiday Oratorio 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Remembrances may be made to Seattle Opera, P.O. Food, fun and friends filled creative life of Joe McDonnal 2011-02-09T05:06:04Z

Others have suggested that his departure is a sign that the Paris Opera Ballet — like France itself — is so resistant to change that it defeats anyone trying to bring it about. Benjamin Millepied Opens Up on Leaving Paris Opera Ballet 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The Royal Opera's music director Antonio Pappano, steeped in this music, is a judicious, generous Wagnerian, with a passionate comprehension of score and text. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z

Although it remains mostly closed, the arts center has presented a few events, including “On Stage at the Opera House” and outdoor sunset concerts on the lawns of the Reach, which reopened this summer. Kennedy Center cancels live performances through spring. Honors are still on, with a different look. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Opera is recording it in audio for release sometime "next fall," according to L.A. Opera 'Ghosts of Versailles' may live forever 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

English National Opera has lately been scrutinized more than scrutinizing. A Newcomer to Opera Tries to Tame a Tempest 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The two most prominent companies, the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic, are struggling for audiences, cash and relevance. Can 2016 really be called the year of the woman? Look to the arts world, and the answer is yes 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, on a new production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, the first at the house in nearly a quarter-century. Arts & Leisure Preview: 'Ring,' Michael C. Hall, 'The Social Network' and More 2010-09-17T19:31:00Z

He made his Metropolitan Opera conducting debut in 2018 with Verdi’s “Otello,” a performance that, if not revelatory, was seething and sensitive. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

The James Levine era is officially over at the Metropolitan Opera. Metropolitan Opera Fires Former Music Director James Levine 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Yet the real Marie was probably expelled from the Opera for missing too many classes. Reassembling the ‘Little Dancer’ by Degas as a Musical 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Aided by brilliant marketing, the Metropolitan Opera has in recent years pivoted to seem younger and fresher, concerned with theatricality and its connection to the broader cultural landscape. Critic's Notebook: With City Opera?s Woes, Other Small Companies Step Up 2012-01-04T14:47:57Z

“I’m not for this music but I’m not against it either,” Mr. da Silva said in melodious Portuguese as Ms. Turunen broke into an Andrew Lloyd Webber-invoking rendition of “Phantom of the Opera.” ArtsBeat Blog: Rock Returns to Rio With a Righteous Beat 2011-09-26T15:03:24Z

Opera Holland Park, whose new Francesca is the last staging of another ambitious season, has a gift for grubbing out Italian verismo truffles from the turn of the 20th century. Opera Holland Park: Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

Yet Mr. Rudel may underestimate the daring of the vision he brought to City Opera, especially considering his background. Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera 2010-03-17T21:03:00Z

Her only performances under the auspices of the Metropolitan Opera came in 1973 with a special production of “Four Saints” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center. Critic?s Notebook: Recalling a Revered Singer in Harlem 2011-02-27T22:42:03Z

“I’ve never supported any of these groups, and I’ve never seen any reason to do so,” said Robert W. Wilson, a former New York City Opera chairman who now serves on the Metropolitan Opera board. Groups Advocating for the Arts Feel the Pinch 2011-08-08T22:30:11Z

Welcome to London’s Royal Opera House, where Opera Dots, a workshop for toddlers, aims to build a future fan base, one hop at a time. Building a lifelong love of opera in toddlers, one hop at a time 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

BBC News reported that Opera North, a British company based in Leeds, said it was canceling its production of “Beached,” a new work by Mr. Hall. ArtsBeat: 'Billy Elliot' Writer Says Homophobia Led to Cancellation of His New Opera 2011-07-05T13:19:00Z

Perhaps Mr. Millepied was stuck at rehearsals for “The Bartered Bride,” which he is choreographing for the Metropolitan Opera. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z

“I’ve been honored to be given the opportunity to work at the Opera and with the dancers, but this job, as it exists today, is not something I want.” Benjamin Millepied to Step Down From Paris Opera Ballet 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Before the premiere, The New York Times reported that Opera Hong Kong, which commissioned and produced “Dr. Sun Yat-sen,” was told that the opera was not politically serious enough. Opera Review: Hong Kong, Not Beijing, Sees an Opera Laced With Revolutionary Zeal 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z

When, in 1989, he canceled six performances of "Tosca" at Chicago's Lyric Opera, that brought his tally to 26 cancellations out of 41 scheduled Lyric performances over nine years. Fire festival among many Chicago arts duds 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

What are your thoughts about the Opera’s recent commission of inquiry into racism, and its conclusions? A Paris Opera Ballet Étoile on Being Young, Gifted and Successful 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. DiDonato, a Kansan embraced by Houston audiences as a hometown heroine, first sang the role of Sister Helen at New York City Opera, whose keen, effective Leonard Foglia production was staged here. Houston Grand Opera Holds to Its Promise of Excellence 2011-02-09T16:15:56Z

She will also oversee the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera at one of the world’s busiest performing arts centers. New Kennedy Center leader Deborah Rutter blazed trail in Seattle 2013-12-12T19:31:25Z

Last week, while awaiting the minister's decision, Bennetts presented a challenging new quadruple bill at Antwerp's Vlaamse Opera, and invited Schauvliege to the opening night. Ballet Menu; Ballet Black ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:48Z

Ms. Dobbs performed on other major stages across Europe, including in Paris and Vienna and at London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, where she sang before Queen Elizabeth II and visiting Swedish royals. Mattiwilda Dobbs, pathbreaking operatic soprano, dies at 90 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Opera is increasingly trying to present itself as just another form of drama, a musical equivalent of spoken theater or film, with its cinematic broadcasts and emphasis on younger, more attractive performers. Perspective | In theater and film, we demand that Asian roles be played by Asian actors. Why is opera different? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Restraint was coupled with unusual richness of detail in this account, which opened a three-night run Thursday at the Kennedy Center Opera House. A ‘Streetcar’ that will move you 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

But the conductor Anne Manson and the Portland Opera musicians make sure that Mr. Glass’s talent for love music also comes through — as it does in “Akhnaten.” The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

“It certainly has overshadowed my entire career,” he told The New York Times in 2004, before the City Opera production. Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Opera North's website touts Albert Herring as "endearing, light-hearted and funny". Britten's comic hero Albert Herring: the only virgin in the village 2013-05-08T17:59:01Z

Just like that, in the middle of a ballet, in front of thousands of spectators at the Metropolitan Opera House, Post found herself in a dancer’s lowest circle of hell. In ballet, injuries are all too real 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

As director of productions at Scottish Opera in the 1980s, he toured productions to remote communities. Opera director Graham Vick dies at 67 of COVID complications 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z

When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, Opera Australia goes on summer break, staging extracts from the world’s best operas on a stage overlooking the city’s iconic harbor. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The Vienna Philharmonic, which consists of members of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, turned the piece into high drama. Review: A Brash Wunderkind, Now 37, Meets an August Ensemble 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

By age 5 she was working as a model, and by 11 she was appearing on daytime radio serials, winning the nickname the Little Queen of Soap Operas. 'Forbidden Planet' star Anne Francis dies at 80 2011-01-03T16:26:09Z

The Yannick Nézet-Séguin era at the Metropolitan Opera will begin in earnest next fall, when he assumes his full workload as the company’s music director — conducting six productions, half of them new. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Kevin Puts' "Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts" was honored for music. The late Manning Marable wins history Pulitzer 2012-04-16T19:25:10Z

He said he wished the Met had imitated the Opera Theater of St. Louis, which, before it presented the opera in 2011, held interfaith discussions on the work and its themes to educate the community. ‘Klinghoffer’ Composer Responds to Met’s Decision 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Opera houses usually put on the standard completions of Puccini’s “Turandot” and Berg’s “Lulu.” Music’s Most Treacherous Assignment: Finishing Mozart 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

She and her husband, the coach Ken Weiss, who met when they were both participants in the prestigious Merola program at the San Francisco Opera, moved to Reston, Va., almost at random. Elizabeth Bishop shows that in opera, success is quite different from stardom 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera said Wednesday that it expects to reach new contracts with its unions, thereby avoiding a lockout and allowing the 2014-15 season to begin in September without interruption. Metropolitan Opera says potential labor crisis has been averted 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

And City Opera is in talks with a broker about selling other productions. City Opera to Dispose of Former Productions 2012-10-02T22:26:59Z

The leonine Russian baritone's recital at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Thursday night presented by Los Angeles Opera dealt in desolation, loss and utter hopelessness. Siberia's bleak, beautiful baritone sweeps across L.A. Opera 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s “Regina” arrived at New York City Opera, with revisions that restored some sung lines that had been spoken on Broadway. Susan Graham, Opera’s Sweetheart, Tries Something New: Being Nasty 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

An enthusiastic audience showed up for the opening event in what should be a revealing, even defining, season for the rebooted City Opera. Review: Signs of Rebirth at New York City Opera 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

This month, the Washington National Opera has brought back Stephen Lawless’s production of “The Flying Dutchman.” On spinning in opera (and going through the motions) 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Three of Broadway's greatest composers are celebrated in this revue of show tunes presented by Seattle's Black Box Opera Company. Bumbershoot preview: Live performances 2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

I have certain interesting things with the Royal Opera House in London. Bryn Terfel Returns to the Metropolitan Opera. (Sort Of.) 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

As Prokofiev’s sweeping music filled the Metropolitan Opera House, it was her mind that soared, not her body. Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Brings a Precise Pairing to the Met 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

In light of a challenging economic climate, New York City Opera created and is executing a very difficult, but strategic new model that reverses a decadelong trend of debilitating deficits. Unions Say City Opera Offer Would Gut Chorus and Orchestra 2011-07-11T22:00:32Z

He has been attached to prestigious institutions, such as English National Opera and both the BBC and Chicago symphony orchestras, and has written a vast range of music for many different instruments and ensembles. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z

Indeed, good seats for the Metropolitan Opera are costly. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Patrick Summers, Houston Grand Opera’s artistic and music director, conducts. ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

It’s always heartening to see lots of eager children in the audience when the Metropolitan Opera presents its family-friendly version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” during the holidays. Review: ‘Magic Flute’ Welcomes Children Back to the Met 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Happel came to City Ballet from the men’s department of the Metropolitan Opera’s costume shop. The ‘Mad Professor’ Who Makes Sure the Tutus Swirl 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

At a time when the internet is awash in high-fidelity livestreams, On Site Opera’s production offers a brittle, imperfect, yet utterly personalized musical experience. Opera Over the Phone Offers Passion in a Pandemic 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Los Angeles is very much an opera town — I see the growth of the company and its success as a testimony to that,” Scorca, of Opera America, said. The Los Angeles Opera, Post-Plácido Domingo 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

The Canadian Opera Company’s “Walküre” was part of an unusual project. Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Sue and I were then taken back to our seats, which is quite a long journey through the bowels of the Royal Opera House. Oscars 2012: Nominees' diary 2012-02-20T10:40:23Z

This week brings American Ballet Theater’s annual run of “Swan Lake” at the Metropolitan Opera House, always a high point of the year for many balletomanes. Review: Two True Artists, One Dramatically Limp ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

“Internationally, the Paris Opera didn’t have a great reputation compared to, say, the Met,” Mr. Jordan said. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

But when he auditioned for the National Opera in Mexico City as a teenager, he was told that he was really a tenor. Plácido Domingo Defies the Gravity of Age 2014-03-07T15:00:03Z

Scottish Opera's is only the fourth professional production in the UK, where Salome and Rosenkavalier have enjoyed countless productions. Strauss's Intermezzo: Scottish Opera whip up a perfect storm in a teacup 2011-03-24T22:30:01Z

He became the first Mexican composer to have his work performed in the United States when the San Diego Opera produced "Rappaccini's Daughter" in 1994. Mexican opera composer Daniel Cat?n dies in Texas 2011-04-12T17:01:06Z

The Metropolitan Opera used to like to ring in the new year with a starry gala. Review: Anna Netrebko Rings in the Year With a Met Gala 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

The average age at the Metropolitan Opera is about to get lower — much lower. Operagoers So Young, the Met Adds Changing Tables and Stroller Parking 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Opera's music director, is set to conduct with a cast that includes tenor Jay Hunter Morris as Captain Ahab. Placido Domingo teaming up with Woody Allen for L.A. Opera's new season 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

The dual announcements, by Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera, represent an optimistic leap into the unknown, and an example of how local arts organizations — and audience members — will be approaching the process of reopening. Here’s how Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera plan to reopen for live performances this fall 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

Please let City Opera pass away in a dignified manner. New York City Opera’s Name and Other Assets Attract Suitors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The San Francisco Opera agreed to a new deal that halves the orchestra’s salary this season, but later makes up some ground. Even When the Music Returns, Pandemic Pay Cuts Will Linger 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Wealthy people fly here from New York to buy their Asian rugs, and opera lovers flock here in summer for the justifiably world-famous open-air productions at the Santa Fe Opera. 2010-02-06T04:33:00Z

The work is the first for this age group to be produced by the Royal Opera, in collaboration with London's Polka Theatre for children, and will feature dance, puppetry and animation alongside the opera. London's Royal Opera targets youngest-ever audience 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

A similar revision has been taking place across the Atlantic at Boston Lyric Opera. Saying Yes to Puccini, but No to His Stereotypes 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

First, though, Pountney is staging the British premiere of another Weinberg piece for Opera North. This week's new live music 2011-01-29T00:06:06Z

Opera is a largely freelance field, where artists come in for a few weeks to rehearse and perform a production, and then move on to the next one. Assaults in dressing rooms. Groping during lessons. Classical musicians reveal a profession rife with harassment. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The company presents work that integrates shadow puppetry, and welcomes the Peking Opera singer Gu Feng to perform an excerpt from the popular production “Monkey King in the Heavenly Palace.” Dance Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

At the time, Ms. Obraztsova was the leading mezzo-soprano for the Bolshoi Opera and had made her New York debut with the company to much acclaim the previous season. Elena Obraztsova, Jewel of the Bolshoi Opera, Is Dead at 75 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Mattiwilda Dobbs, a coloratura soprano who was the third African-American to appear as a principal singer with the Metropolitan Opera, died on Tuesday at her home in Atlanta. Mattiwilda Dobbs, Soprano and Principal at Met, Dies at 90 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Further ahead, there's the second large-scale opera by Thomas Adès, his reworking of Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel, which will arrive on the Royal Opera's stage in 2017. With George Benjamin's Written on Skin, British opera takes a bold step into the future 2013-03-11T15:52:00Z

Seattle Opera is keeping open the number of performances it might offer for each opera to potentially allow for a smaller number of audience members. Here’s how Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera plan to reopen for live performances this fall 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

Looking to future seasons. the Met has joined with the Royal Opera and the Salzburg Festival to commission Thomas Ades' "The Exterminating Angel," based on the Luis Bunuel film. Met cuts ticket prices following box office slump 2013-02-26T22:04:08Z

Greenspan got his first break while working as an extra at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Bud Greenspan, longtime filmmaker who chronicled the Olympics' soaring moments, dies at 84 2010-12-27T01:16:00Z

Elizabeth D’Antonio, a retired nurse practitioner and costume maker for the Annapolis Opera in Maryland, enlisted a group of 15 people — “one guy and fourteen women” — to make masks for the Anne Arundel Medical Center. Here’s the good some are doing to combat the fear and isolation of the coronavirus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Such are the perils of live opera broadcasts, pioneered by the Metropolitan Opera but now increasingly the province of other companies. ArtsBeat Blog: Watching a La Scala Opening on the Big Screen 2011-12-07T23:05:49Z

In August the Shanghai Opera performed “Thunderstorm”, a newly adapted Western-style Chinese work, at London’s Coliseum. China’s newest export hit is classical music 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Opera 90012 is a program that provides a mini-subscription of four operas to a limited number of students in grades 7 to 12. Ahmanson sells $25-per-ticket student subscriptions; parents can go for the same price 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jellinek became a frequent panelist on “Texaco’s Opera Quiz,” a segment of the Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera. 2010-01-20T06:55:00Z

Domingo added that the tale of Orpheus represents only the second time that his company and the Lyric Opera have come together to create a production. L.A. Opera plans production with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Joffrey Ballet and Hamburg State Opera 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

The inmates had gathered one recent afternoon for a rehearsal of “Dead Man Walking,” the death-row tale that opened the Metropolitan Opera season last week. A Death Row Opera Goes to Sing Sing, With Inmates Onstage 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

It is also, as amply demonstrated in a revival that opened on Monday evening at the Metropolitan Opera, totally delightful. Music Review: Donizetti?s ?Fille du R?giment? at the Met - Review 2011-12-13T23:22:49Z

Long before grand Metropolitan Opera productions represented the first, last and final word about opera onscreen, thanks to its public-television broadcasts, audiences could find their way to sprightly, comedic musical spectacles. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Girard’s first venture into Wagner was in 2006 when he directed “Siegfried,” the third of four operas in the “Ring” cycle for the Canadian Opera Company. Met opera gets visionary new “Dutchman” 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

The Margaritaville singer had performed on Sunday and Monday to sold-out crowds at Sydney's Opera House, and the Wednesday concert was tacked on in response to demand. Jimmy Buffett falls off stage at Australia concert 2011-01-28T03:01:08Z

Valery Gergiev, the conductor known for his perpetual motion, is “suffering from exhaustion” in St. Petersburg, Russia, and will not be conducting Wednesday evening’s performance of “Boris Godunov,” the Metropolitan Opera said. ArtsBeat: 'Exhaustion' Sidelines Gergiev From Wednesday Night Performance at Met 2011-03-09T18:48:58Z

Followed by Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Opera, and then, with four submarine torpedoes attached to each leg, the Eiffel Tower. Paris' fate is at stake in the flawless, WWII-set 'Diplomacy' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

After Opera Theater of St. Louis staged a revival of “Emmeline” five years later — the summer Sacks died — James Robinson, that festival’s artistic director, asked Picker to develop a new work. An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Hrusa’s long resume includes stints as associate conductor of the Czech Philharmonia, music director of the Royal Danish Opera and Orchestra, and principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Czech conductor will lead SSO in Beethoven ‘jewel’ 2013-05-23T20:27:07Z

But at the Berliner Ensemble in January, preparations were underway for a highly anticipated new staging of “The Threepenny Opera.” ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

David Gockley, the general director of San Francisco Opera, said ticket sales do not cover the costs of operas in either large or small houses. San Francisco Joins the Growing World of Small Operas 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

"If 30,000 people watch the New York Metropolitan Opera, we are happy about that, that's a core audience for us," he says. James Hunt dismisses accusations that Sky Arts is a cultural 'fig leaf' for BSkyB 2012-11-25T19:00:03Z

Mr. Sharon understands that the Metropolitan Opera, say, has pressures he doesn’t, but he still intends the Industry’s productions to be a kind of dare to traditional opera houses. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

The Choral Arts sang the hour-long work with emotion and attentive musical reflexes to Walker, who drew upon his Pittsburgh Opera and Washington Concert Opera director experiences to conjure up some explosive and bittersweet sounds. Review | Choral Arts hits the mark with a serious Rossini 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

The Matthews Opera House was built in 1906 by a rancher to welcome traveling companies. A Red State’s Arts Blues 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

And a few hours after hearing the news, playwright and blogger Daniel Bye posted this thoughtful piece, addressed: "Dear Opera North". Lee Hall and Opera North: how the story went viral 2011-07-05T12:37:37Z

And Rudolf Nureyev’s 1984 staging of “Swan Lake,” performed by the Paris Opera Ballet, is on medici.tv. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Captain America’ and ‘Swan Lake’ 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

A first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, Lord Harewood was best known to American readers as the longtime editor of Kobbé’s Complete Opera Book. George Lascelles, Lord Harewood, Dies at 88; Wrote Opera Reference 2011-07-26T22:29:27Z

On a quiet, leafy boulevard in the city’s capital, steps from the Hanoi Opera House and the Old Quarter, Capella Hanoi conjures the glamour and high society of opera in the Roaring Twenties. 10 New Standout Hotels in Asia 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

But City Opera was shuttered in 2013, and “Parable of the Sower” was left unfinished. Apocalypse Nowish: Singing the Prophetic Warnings of Octavia Butler 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

If Giacomo Puccini, nearly 100 years after his death, could have attended the Metropolitan Opera’s recent New Year’s Eve gala, he surely would have been impressed. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Last week, “The Phantom of the Opera,” which is Broadway’s longest-running show, announced that it would close in February; over the weekend “Dear Evan Hansen” closed and “Come From Away” is closing early next month. ‘Beetlejuice’ to Close on Broadway 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Vienna State Opera will be headed by a former pop radio boss and record company executive, Austria's Culture Ministry said on Wednesday, hoping to attract a younger audience to Austria's flagship music venue. Vienna State Opera to be headed by record company executive 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The latest, and one of the most ambitious, is Bright Sheng’s “Dream of the Red Chamber,” which was given its world premiere Saturday night by San Francisco Opera. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

A year later the Royal Opera House dismissed him as director of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, citing a “difference in artistic interpretation” between Mr. Lyubimov and the musical director Bernard Haitink. Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Stage Director, Dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Long Beach Opera raises life's questions, loudly, in Stewart Copeland's 'Invention of Morel' For Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the welcome return of some familiar faces 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

"Opera is all about big sweeping visual statements and raw emotion." ENO joins pioneering theatre company for East End opera 2010-03-31T14:40:00Z

Even for a critic who attends performances as a way of life, there were more than a few similarities to “Groundhog Day” in seeing four shows over 48 hours at the Metropolitan Opera this weekend. 4 Operas in 48 Hours: A Critic’s Marathon at the Met 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Companies are realizing they need more ways to draw people in, said Scorca of Opera America, including those who haven’t traditionally attended performances. Seattle Opera has big plans for its new headquarters at Seattle Center 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

The extension, announced when he was named the next music director of the Metropolitan Opera, reassured Philadelphia that he would not forsake them for the lures of the opera pit. Keeping Score of Who’s in Charge of America’s Orchestras 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Opera, on the other hand, attempted to break down different barriers. A 'Wonderful Town' in search of wonder 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Scappucci, who makes her debut with the Los Angeles Opera this spring in Puccini’s “La Bohème,” led an exacting yet stylishly supple account of this work. Review: Bellini’s ‘La Sonnambula,’ Sung by Promising Young Voices 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Opera and a handful of touring dance companies, is often dark. How the Music Center broke new ground for major arts institutions 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Operas are sometimes trimmed here to fit an intermission-free format, but “Chénier” includes two interpolations of new music by David Blake, including a brief sequence during which the Revolution itself is graphically depicted. Music: Opera on Lake Constance: Love, Death and Fate 2011-07-26T11:00:06Z

It’s also about failure and redemption, which is the part of the story that most concerns the Metropolitan Opera at the moment. Review | The Met Opera’s high-tech ‘Ring’ was a flop. Can a soprano change that at its revival? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Those hoping Sandler would reprise his popular Opera Man character for Weekend Update get their wish. Saturday Night Live: Adam Sandler returns for a 'Family Reunion' and reprises Opera Man 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

We each pay 95 euros and meet in a central location, in this case the Opera House plaza not far from the Royal Palace. Mushrooms, vermouth and jamon: Food-touring in Madrid 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Which was in there because the night before Harvey Milk was murdered, he went to San Francisco Opera, and what was performed? An Opera About Harvey Milk Finally Finds Itself 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

You can just about hear the mental calculations of the Opera House's gatekeepers. Rufus Wainwright and Loudon Wainwright III ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:43Z

“It’s doesn’t matter from which direction you approach the War Memorial Opera House. You will pass encampments of homeless seemingly growing in direct proportion to the invasion of newly minted tech millionaires.” Essential Art & Culture: Getty Center at 20, a show unearths Mexican masterpieces, a gold rush opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Opera is presenting as part of its "Figaro Unbound" festival, a little social context. Singing best part of L.A. Opera's slapsticky 'Barber of Seville' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mortier originally commissioned the work for the New York City Opera when he was slated to become the company’s director. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z

The Paris Opera, which celebrates its 350th birthday in 2019, is an unlikely contradiction to the worldwide trend of an aging audience at operas. Is opera audience aging? Not in Paris 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Opera on Tap set lists have a theme every month and this one was arias set at parties or in crowds. Go to a dive bar, drink beer — listen to opera? 2 writers experience Opera on Tap at Blue Moon | Art Outings 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera reopened with its first work by a Black composer. Review: Chamber Music Society Returns, Unchanged 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Right now, it is exploring “The Threepenny Opera,” with a new production running through January. In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

In early August, when she took the reins at Seattle Opera, Scheppelmann also became one of only two women heading up a major opera company in the United States. Why are there so few women at the top in classical music? What’s being done about it in Seattle and elsewhere? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Frequent high-profile cancellations occur at the Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere when artists decide that a role is no longer appropriate, perhaps because their voices have changed. Music in Review: Music in Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys 2012-11-11T23:08:21Z

Seventy years later, at age 91, she's still with it - choreographing a production of the musical at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Choreographer recreates 'Oklahoma!' at age 91 2013-05-02T15:19:10Z

The company was founded in 2001 as the Henry Street Chamber Opera.  San Diego Opera names David Bennett as new general director 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Opera Philadelphia has been planning this for a couple of years: Now, the O17 festival has begun, turning the city into a giant opera stage for 12 days. Perspective | How do you get an audience excited for opera? It’s the vision thing. 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

She was 58 and, for the past decade, was host of the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee broadcasts. Margaret Juntwait, host of the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee radio broadcasts, dies at 58 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

As his podium career expanded, he led a Mozart cycle at the Vienna State Opera and a Monteverdi cycle at the Zurich Opera. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor and Early-Music Specialist, Dies at 86 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

But what Michigan Opera Theater unveiled on Tuesday puts off a return to live indoor performances at the Detroit Opera House until at least April 2022. A Malcolm X Opera Will Get a Rare Revival in Detroit 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Wherever digital content falls in the mix of Seattle Opera’s production going forward, the main lesson learned may be one of flexibility. How Seattle Opera became one of few companies nationwide to pull off an all-digital season 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Opera Lafayette brought this piece, as light and fleeting and swirling with color as a soap bubble, to the Terrace Theater on Tuesday and Wednesday night. An evanescent French rarity by Chabrier returns to the stage 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Not so for James Levine, the music director of the Metropolitan Opera, who has been plagued by health problems for the past five years. James Levine Withdraws From Met?s Fall Season 2011-09-07T04:32:44Z

In 1997, Glimmerglass Opera in upstate New York contacted the Metropolitan Opera, where I was in the young artists program, and said they were auditioning for Lennie in “Of Mice and Men.” Carlisle Floyd: Artists Share Memories of a Composer 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

In 1980, in the ninth season after founding the Opera Orchestra of New York, she conducted the work at Carnegie Hall. Music Review: Wagner?s ?Rienzi? From Opera Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-01T00:07:03Z

At the top of the bill are The Phantom of the Opera, Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar. Portugal's new tourism draws are Phantom Of The Opera and Evita 2011-03-20T00:05:46Z

Earlier this week, he attended an event at Perez Elementary School in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood with famed soprano Renee Fleming, who holds a similar position with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Yo-Yo Ma to continue work at Chicago Symphony 2012-10-17T22:12:08Z

She is scheduled for her English National Opera debut next fall in Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld.” Transgender baritone Lucia Lucas makes US debut 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Opera's new production, which is running through March 1 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Patti LuPone, Marilyn Horne in conversation about 'Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Carnegie Hall, for example, has filed a business interruption claim, while the Metropolitan Opera does not even have such a policy, calling it “prohibitively expensive.” Arts Groups Fight Their Insurers Over Coverage on Virus Losses 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Ms. Netrebko will sing her first complete staged “Turandot” later this month at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and she is scheduled to bring it to the Met in the 2021-22 season. Review: Anna Netrebko Rings in the Year With a Met Gala 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

But the Metropolitan Opera remained dark on Sundays, as usual — and will do so next season, as well. Sunday Performances Continue to Elude the Met 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

City Opera will showcase the career of the mezzo-soprano Betty Allen with film and sound clips and live musical selections in A Tribute to Betty Allen on Feb. 28. Second Season Is Set for New York City Opera and Schomburg Center 2010-09-29T14:56:00Z

But just as “Rosa” saves American Opera, “Great Scott” is ephemeral opera that signifies a potentially solid future for San Diego Opera. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

“Honestly, that week I was on a big ‘Phantom of the Opera’ kick,” she said. Let Them Eat (Wacky, Whimsical) Cake 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Schwartz participated in a City Opera panel discussion this month, moderated by the company’s general manager, George Steel, on the topic of what defines opera and musical theater. Opera Review: An Opera Strays Into a Clairvoyant Realm 2011-04-20T15:57:07Z

Conductor Kent Nagano is a lifelong surfer, and a good one who occasionally went out with the braver members of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra when he was their music director. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

‘SATYAGRAHA’ The Met Opera’s 2008 production of Philip Glass’s shining reflection on Gandhi, which was dominated by newsprint, was a hit. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The evening before the Philharmonic rehearsal, Mr. Eotvos had attended a performance of Verdi’s “Ernani” across the Lincoln Center Plaza at the Metropolitan Opera. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The memo did not identify the jobs and City Opera officials did not immediately return a phone call. ArtsBeat: City Opera to Lay Off 11 Workers 2011-06-03T17:21:09Z

In April, the Metropolitan Opera returned online, presenting a four-hour “At-Home Gala” featuring 40 leading singers performing live from around the world. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

With fewer than a dozen dancers and a light, flexible administrative structure, it is more or less the opposite of the Paris Opera. Aurélie Dupont, Unbound 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Opera Omaha’s inaugural ONE Festival, running through April 22, embraces opera’s roots with its tentpole production, Cherubini’s “Medea,” which plays next weekend in the Orpheum Theater. An Opera Festival’s Local Focus 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Text was central even at her recent rehearsals with the Bavarian State Opera’s orchestra. A Conductor in Demand, and in Control 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

His views are backed by Clare Hoskins, an oboist with Glyndebourne Touring Opera and music teacher at Childs Hill primary school in north London, where she has been training a chorus of trees. Fox pop: English Touring Opera gives Roald Dahl back to the kids 2011-02-17T22:26:00Z

Still, at 55 and at the height of her career, she abruptly announced her retirement in 1974 after singing her last Arabella at the Vienna State Opera. Lisa Della Casa, Opera Singer, Dies at 93 2012-12-13T00:28:21Z

The work gets its Covent Garden debut on Saturday and will form part of a season at the Royal Opera House marking the 20th anniversary of the choreographer's death. Stage set for Las Hermanas' Covent Garden debut 2012-11-16T12:40:05Z

Many other performing arts groups in New York, including the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Ballet, canceled their spring engagements earlier this fall. American Ballet Theater Cancels Season at Metropolitan Opera House 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

The Marian Anderson Award is named for the celebrated contralto and Philadelphia native, who in 1955 was the first black soloist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. James Earl Jones chosen for Marian Anderson Award 2012-06-05T14:31:08Z

“The idea is that we’ll always have an American piece that has strong ties to City Opera’s past,” Mr. Capasso said. New York City Opera to Join Forces With Harold Prince Next Season 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

It came to the Wolf Trap Opera on Friday night in an intense wallop of a well-sung production. A powerful opera about a horrible subject 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Three Russian artists made important first appearances on Wednesday and Thursday with American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House. In the Temple Dancer’s Story, 3 Important Russian Debuts 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

“What I’m really excited about is, it’s prompted by the right reasons,” Kent said of the Opera House debut, necessitated by the production demands of “The Dream.” From Washington Ballet Director Julie Kent, an all-star lineup in 2017 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Mackintosh also plans to rejigger another mega-musical with a huge fan base: "Phantom of the Opera." Producer dares purists to love anniversary version of 'Les Miz,' coming to Seattle's 5th Avenue 2011-08-05T22:05:03Z

That the Metropolitan Opera opened its season as scheduled on Monday night with a new production of Mozart’s “Nozze di Figaro” was good news, no matter your take on the show. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

“I’m 53 years old. If I were to wait for the Metropolitan Opera to give me a performance, I’d die first.” Robert Ashley, Opera Composer Who Painted Outside the Lines, Dies at 83 2014-03-07T03:00:51Z

But, he says, the Royal Opera House years have not just been some kind of extended sabbatical. New BBC director general Tony Hall: 'It's about setting the conditions whereby artists flourish' 2013-03-02T09:01:06Z

Now they are doing the parts in Bartlett Sher’s new staging of “Rigoletto” at the Metropolitan Opera, which opened on New Year’s Eve and moves the action to Weimar Germany. ‘Rigoletto’ at the Met Unites a Father and Daughter. Again. 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

In addition to his role at the Hanover State Opera, he is the associate choreographer at the Nederlands Dans Theater, a company that has performed his work in New York. Choreographer Smears Dog Feces on Critic After Negative Review 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

If the E.N.O., as English National Opera is known, had to move away from London, “How can it keep on doing the rest?” An Opera Company’s Precarious Future Has Some Worried About a Ripple Effect 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

So the Armenian soprano made her Royal Opera debut early to thundering applause. Don Carlo; Gods and Heroes – review 2013-05-11T23:07:35Z

Some vast organizations, such as the Met Opera, have in the interim furloughed their orchestras. New York is one of the world’s great cities for the arts — but the damage from the pandemic is proving to be catastrophic 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

The most unusual opera, about a bird, an egg and chick, was written by the composer Lliam Paterson and developed by Scottish Opera, Improbable theater company and the Manchester International Festival. Operagoers So Young, the Met Adds Changing Tables and Stroller Parking 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

I entered the dark space to the swelling music of “Phantom of the Opera” as performed by a floppy-haired guy and a karaoke machine. Zappos’s CEO is helping revitalize downtown Las Vegas. He took me on a whirlwind tour. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Opera music director Kent Nagano began his appointment as music director of the Hamburg State Opera Saturday with a major new production of Berlioz's epic opera, "Les Troyens." Essential Arts & Culture: Beyond the Broad 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Then, in 1998, it was restaged by the Lyric Opera of Chicago in a version substantially revised by Mr. Levy, and met with a glowing reception. Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Vox Lumiere — The Phantom of the Opera The classic 1925 silent film serves as the backdrop for this show that blends drama, music and dance. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 14-21: 'Low Hanging Fruit' and more 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

He conducted his opera “The Martyr” at Carnegie Hall in 1947 in a performance by the Negro Grand Opera Company. Long-Unheard Harlem Renaissance Opera Coming in June 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

‘The Phantom of the Opera’ Who was that masked man anyway? Theater Listings for Dec. 27-Jan. 2 2013-12-27T06:11:46Z

From the first measures of this live recording of the premiere at Minnesota Opera, conducted with impressive cohesion by Lidiya Yankovskaya, the swarming strings and piercing winds affirm that there will be no coddling. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

“It was absolutely extraordinary to open the first violin part and find those pages,” he told Opera News in 2011. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

AT first glance New York City Opera would appear to have been blessed with a full chorus of advantages. How People?s Opera Orchestrated Its Peril 2011-06-15T13:37:18Z

But D.C. has a reserve of classical professionals that few other cities can boast thanks to the National Symphony Orchestra, the Washington National Opera and the U.S. military. With the Barclay Brass, D.C. takes an outsized role in the small world of classical brass music 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Riccardo Muti, the production’s conductor and the “honorary conductor for life” at the Rome Opera, is not known to suffer gladly either fools or divas. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko in ‘Manon Lescaut,’ at the Rome Opera 2014-03-03T17:53:28Z

Opera purists may squawk, but for me, every voice does justice not only to Bizet’s melodic richness but also to the inescapable fatalism of the story, as the music tugs everyone into combustible convergence. Review: Bad Girl Makes Good in a Glorious ‘Carmen Jones’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

He went on to found the competing Prague Philharmonia, become chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and lead several acclaimed productions at the Metropolitan Opera. Jiri Belohlavek and the Czech Philharmonic Tour the U.S. 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Porgy was a collaborative effort from the beginning, said Naomi André, author of the book “Black in Opera.” Beloved yet problematic: Seattle Opera tackles the cultural controversies behind ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

But the piece becomes less consistently compelling when Mr. Andrieux’s narrative leaves Cunningham and recounts his 2007 move to the Lyon Opera Ballet and its broad repertory. Dance Review: Snapshots of One Dancer?s Life Give a Glimpse Into an Art Form 2010-09-19T22:09:00Z

With his bullish idealism, Mr. Barenboim is putting a stamp on the State Opera and its satellite organizations that increasingly defines a large segment of Berlin’s cultural identity in his own image. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

The sequence was shot on location at the War Memorial Opera House, home to the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Ballet. 'Steve Jobs' movie: A backstage look at a backstage drama 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

AP: What about the production by the Hungarian State Opera which violated terms of the Gershwin copyright and used white singers who claimed they “self-identified as African American?” ‘No path is easy’: Black opera singers detail struggles 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

And that was still my conclusion on Thursday, when New York City Opera presented the American premiere at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Review: ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ the Opera, Falls Short of Its Potential 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

On one hand, he created ballets for his own and other international companies, and was briefly director of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1970. Roland Petit: a career in clips 2011-07-11T11:10:51Z

But who would have known that from the audience in the Howard Gilman Opera House? Dance Review: Trisha Brown Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-31T22:53:57Z

Her father toured with a troupe that performed a regional form of opera called Pingju, which is common in Hebei Province; and her older brother began studying Peking Opera as a child. Zhang Huoding of Peking Opera Takes a Turn in the United States 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

He started taking dance classes in his village, the only boy, and when he was 10 left his family and home to attend the school of the Paris Opera Ballet. Can a Dance Class Free Men’s Bodies in a Place Meant to Contain Them? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Opera, he explains, is about the expression of intense emotion through song. Movie Review: ‘Quartet,’ Directed by Dustin Hoffman 2013-01-10T22:49:24Z

“He’s not very happy at all to see a figure like him weakened in any way,” said Antonio Pappano, the music director of the Royal Opera House in London and a Barenboim protégé. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

We are confident that with luck on our side, Opera Rara can continue to flourish. Peter Moores and His Campaign for Opera in English 2010-08-22T01:53:00Z

The experience has also been a homecoming for Ms. Graham, who made her professional debut at Opera Theater in Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa” 30 years ago. Susan Graham, Opera’s Sweetheart, Tries Something New: Being Nasty 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Trauma is not a bad way of describing the past few years at the fractious Paris Opera. With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The annual award is named after Philadelphia-born contralto Marian Anderson, who in 1955 was the first black soloist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Mia Farrow chosen for Marian Anderson Award 2011-01-15T00:09:08Z

Miskimmon said she chose “The Handmaid’s Tale” for her English National Opera debut because the company was founded on the idea of “opera for everyone.” For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Yo-Yo Ma slipped in at around 6 p.m. to tape a tribute to Midori; at 7 p.m. he performed at the start of the medallion ceremony, which Estefan hosted on the Opera House stage. Noisy jets, secret performers and rooftop dancers: Inside the making of an unprecedented Kennedy Center Honors 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

“There’s a wonderful energy that things are changing, that storytellers are changing,” said Matthew Shilvock, San Francisco Opera’s general director. She’s Making History in Opera. Can She Help Ensure Its Future? 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Walker, the music director of the Pittsburgh Opera, contributed to this fresh look at “Madama Butterfly” by drawing a lithe and impressively articulate performance from the Santa Fe players. Music Review: Fresh Take on ?Madama Butterfly? at Santa Fe Opera 2010-07-26T22:37:00Z

The report was perhaps too a rather incomplete picture of the work of the Royal Opera House. Was Will Gompertz right when he said the arts had been subsidised to "no great effect"? 2012-11-20T12:50:12Z

Wednesday evening brought an addition to the constellation with the inaugural performance by Opera Moderne, an ambitious new company with its eye on a wide range of music. Music Review: Opera Moderne?s ?Modern Tryst? at the Galapagos Art Space - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z

The problem with City Opera, the one that may well have prevented him from winning, is one that transcends Mr. Mortier and George Steel, now that company’s general manager and artistic director. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z

DESSAU, Germany — Tourists in this sleepy town would be hard-pressed to find any trace of Kurt Weill, the composer of “The Threepenny Opera” and other acclaimed concert and stage works, who grew up here. Kurt Weill: How Germany Finally Unearthed a National Treasure 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

If you go to “La Bohème” at the Metropolitan Opera this season and are convinced that the big snowdrift in Act III looks a little fresher than usual, you’re not hallucinating. At the Met, a Refurbished ‘Bohème’ and an Art Deco ‘Ballo’ 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

After “Rent,” there was “The Phantom of the Opera.” Why ‘Rent,’ the Movie, Was My Gateway Musical 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Clearly aware of the opera’s problems, Mr. Adams spent last summer revising the score before it traveled to the Dutch National Opera with the same production, cast and conductor, Grant Gershon, this week. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Musically, the opera is indebted to Kurt Weill, Brecht’s collaborator on similar works, including “The Threepenny Opera” and “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.” ‘The Cradle Will Rock’ Returns With Its Brazen Politics Intact 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Opera seasons are often planned up to five years in advance. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Reopening after the long shutdown was never going to be easy for the Metropolitan Opera, the largest performing arts company in the nation. The Met Opera Races to Reopen After Months of Pandemic Silence 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's musical play “The Threepenny Opera” was famously mounted in 1945 Berlin just after the war.  A 'Threepenny Opera' without a sense of urgency 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

At first glance, the Web site of the Wolf Trap Opera Company looks like many other opera company Web sites. Wolf Trap Opera Company: The house that Kim built 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The conductor Harry Bicket, heard at the Metropolitan Opera last fall in Handel’s “Rodelinda,” draws supple, fresh playing from the orchestra. Music Review: Francisco Negrin Directs ?Rinaldo? for Lyric Opera of Chicago 2012-03-01T23:12:14Z

A new cast takes over later in the run, with promising American mezzo Sandra Piques Eddy making her Opera North debut. Carmen; Juan Diego Fl?rez ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:31Z

A version of this article appears in print on April 14, 2014, on page C1 of the with the headline: Death Knell For Opera In San Diego After 49 Years. Death Knell for Opera in San Diego After 49 Years 2014-04-13T21:46:55Z

After retiring from the Met, she taught opera at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, then established the Opera Arts Training Program in San Francisco to nurture the talent of young girls. Metropolitan Opera star Blanche Thebom dead at 94 2010-03-29T22:12:00Z

The Rome Opera did not say whether there would be any changes to the season's calendar following Muti's departure. Riccardo Muti bows out of conducting Rome opera amid strikes 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gelb said he had advised Mr. Grigolo that he would not be welcome to sing in Verdi’s “La Traviata” at the Met this winter unless the Royal Opera’s investigation cleared him. Plácido Domingo Leaves Met Opera Amid Sexual Harassment Inquiry 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

This was the case in the Royal Opera's end-of-season stellar revival of Jonathan Kent's workable, handsome but stolid production, new in 2006. Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z

The artistic director of the Seattle Opera's Young Artists Program has a gift for glossing seemingly conventional operas with directorial devices that seem idiosyncratic but end by providing brilliant illumination. Opera review: Young artists offer seductive 'Ariadne' 2010-04-02T20:23:00Z

What I can say is this: Opera is tiring, so maybe I will be singing but maybe only in concerts, but I cannot assure anything.  Plácido Domingo on playing Macbeth in L.A. Opera's season opener 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

The conductor Eun Sun Kim is building a significant career in some of the world’s big houses, and started this season as the Houston Grand Opera’s principal guest conductor. Review | Maurice Sendak’s ‘Magic Flute’ brings storybook flair — and familiarity — to WNO 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

After studying chemistry at Boston University  — Mr. Kneuss was his roommate — he lived for three years in Vienna, attending the State Opera there up to seven times a week. Donald Palumbo, a Met Star in the Wings 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Brook’s prolific theatrical life began in the 1940s, when the Oxford grad and son of Jewish Latvian immigrants won praise for his direction for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z

“Pardon my bad French,” Verdi wrote, in 1855, to the head of the Paris Opera. Music Review: Verdi’s ‘Les Vêpres Siciliennes’: How Paris Helped Him Soar 2013-07-07T21:44:22Z

On Thursday night, the Kennedy Center Opera House was filled with an adoring crowd that roared with adulation for her at every opportunity. Review | ‘Justice at the Opera’: Ginsburg takes center stage at WNO and brings down the house 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of the director of “Simon Boccanegra” at the Paris Opera next season. Ivo van Hove’s ‘Don Giovanni’ Will Be Shared by Paris and the Met 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Opera, theatre and classical music are all much more powerful if experienced on a stage rather than a screen. The Review Show's move to BBC4: a typical piece of BBC cowardice 2013-02-26T15:41:12Z

He began by challenging my recent statement in The New York Times that the City Opera staff was dwindling, made after it was learned that two respected members of the music department would be leaving. Critic?s Notebook: Ushering City Opera Into a New Era 2011-08-12T22:27:56Z

Mr. Heggie brought his customary facility to the work, which was commissioned by the Dallas Opera and four other companies. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z

The center was built on the seventh and eighth floors of the building where Opera America already has offices. National Opera Center Is to Open in Manhattan 2012-09-14T16:47:40Z

The largest studio, which matches the size of the Opera House stage, will probably be used as a cabaret for much of the first year, she said. First glimpse of Kennedy Center’s much delayed expansion unveiled 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

So, there is little tolerance for mediocrity - and there was none, in Thursday's performance at the Vienna State Opera. Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z

Compared with other American companies, Opera Philadelphia is laying claim to the mantle of making new material during the pandemic. Prompted by the Pandemic, Opera Philadelphia Innovates Online 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

This year the English National Opera presented the premiere of his full-length “Two Boys,” with a libretto by Craig Lucas, which drew mixed reviews and is scheduled for a future production at the Metropolitan Opera. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z

Susan Froemke’s new documentary “The Opera House,” about the building of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lincoln Center home, had its premiere at the Met recently. Spitfire Fiddling: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

As the lights dim at the beginning of the 2019 opera “Blue,” running through March 12 at Seattle Opera, a wash of blue light covers the audience, and alongside it, a sweeping feeling of dread. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Blue’ explores the effects of police violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

A year ago the newly formed On Site Opera made its initial splash with Shostakovich’s “Tale of the Silly Baby Mouse” at the Bronx Zoo. Music Review: ‘Blue Monday,’ at the Cotton Club 2013-06-19T20:48:52Z

Opera is a form of drama — musical drama. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Opera hasn't announced any producing partners, and it's unclear whether the production will travel to other cities after the L.A. run concludes March 1. L.A. Opera goes for the epic with 'The Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The show of solidarity was instrumental to the orchestra reaching three-year deals with the Kennedy Center and the Washington National Opera, de Boor said. Kennedy Center stagehands authorize strike, putting ‘Hadestown’ and other scheduled shows in jeopardy 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Manson has worked with the San Francisco Opera, the Washington National Opera, the Minnesota Opera and other companies, just to mention American ones. Music Review: ‘The Cunning Little Vixen,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-04-29T20:13:53Z

But the role grew as the piece was reworked for its premiere in June at Long Beach Opera. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

With a “Ring” on the horizon in his new position at the Zurich Opera, is he adept at leading this challenging composer’s music? Review: A Conductor and Soprano Test Wagnerian Waters 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Domingo’s departure occurred the day that news broke that a young star tenor, Vittorio Grigolo, had been suspended by the Royal Opera in London, following an incident on a tour of Japan. Plácido Domingo Leaves Met Opera Amid Sexual Harassment Inquiry 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Opera Gallery has a worldwide network of nine spaces, where it mixes decorative contemporary paintings with works by popular such big-name artists as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Bernard Buffet and even Banksy. Banking on the Appeal of ‘Bad Art’ 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

All of the work relates to, and augurs well for, his production of Shostakovich’s “Nose,” opening on Friday at the Metropolitan Opera. Art Review: Venerable, Small and Lots on Paper (Including Napkins) 2010-03-04T22:38:00Z

He came to the United States after World War II as a member of a celebrated ensemble, the Lener Quartet, and in 1948 he joined the New York City Opera orchestra. Laszlo Varga, Cellist for the New York Philharmonic, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. O’Hara took a step with her Metropolitan Opera debut last season as Valencienne in a new production of Lehar’s “The Merry Widow.” Review: Kelli O’Hara’s Operatic Turn in ‘Dido and Aeneas’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

No one will mistake the results for what one hears at the Metropolitan Opera, but this isn’t plodding work either. At Castleton Festival, a fitting tribute to Lorin Maazel 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

The cast, with students from the Juilliard Opera and young artists from the Met, was consistently impressive. Music Review: Gluck?s ?Armide? Opera in Met-Juilliard Production 2012-02-12T15:16:28Z

“Champion” premiered at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis on June 15, 2013. Met Opera to present Blanchard’s ‘Champion’ in April 2023 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Among the first things this year’s guests will encounter is a 50-foot-high facade that says “Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week” and is covered with painted material meant to resemble the marble of the Metropolitan Opera House. New York Fashion Week: At New Site, No Runway Jostling 2010-09-09T06:38:00Z

“I thought it was just inviting me to attend,” she said of the 37th Honors ceremony, scheduled for Dec. 7 in the Opera House and for telecast Dec. 30 on CBS. Honors Class of ’14: Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Lily Tomlin, Sting

Bocelli will present his thesis, titled “The Value and Meaning of Opera Singing at the Beginning of the Third Millennium,” later this month. Tenor Andrea Bocelli to Receive Master’s Next Week 2013-10-17T16:45:53Z

The Metropolitan Opera has put on “La Bohème” nearly 1,400 times, more than any other work; its players could do this moment in their sleep. Review: In ‘La Bohème’ at the Met, the Star Is in the Pit 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

Where Mr. Habjan’s production takes a deep dive into the mind of its central character, the State Opera’s Art Nouveau-inspired production is more of a picture book, remaining largely on the surface. It’s ‘Salome.’ But With Puppets. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Picker has been commissioned to compose "American Venus" for the New York City Opera's 75th anniversary in 2019. NYC Opera announces 1st full season after bankruptcy 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Martinez, a native of Puerto Rico, is an alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Studio and has performed here frequently, so it was natural she should try out such a demanding role on home ground. Soprano Martinez tries out "Butterfly" wings 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z

The New York City Ballet repeats this program Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Opera House. Review | New York City Ballet’s knockout punch is delivered at Kennedy Center 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The demise of City Opera and other smaller groups is likely just a foretaste of what we will see in the next 15 years. New York City Opera’s Name and Other Assets Attract Suitors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

This year his first offering is one of Donizetti’s grand operas for the Paris Opera, heard in its original French rather than the more popular Italian version. Classical & Opera Listings for July 10-16 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Many had successes as young singers at City Opera and went on to major international careers. Stars Sign Letter Protesting City Opera?s Move 2011-07-07T21:45:25Z

And the Washington National Opera is in the midst of producing its own VR offering, featuring soprano Tamara Wilson and tenor Russell Thomas performing a pair of arias from Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” How a mannequin head could revolutionize how orchestras and audiences come together 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

Now Lehnhoff's production is coming back to English National Opera for its final performances, having travelled the world in the intervening years. Parsifal: Wagner's 'Buddhist piece' 2011-02-10T22:00:00Z

Opera a beguiling production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" with magical cinematic effects redolent of the silent film era. L.A. Opera goes cutting edge in double bill of Purcell, Bartók 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

The contemporary production of Puccini’s “La Bohème” that he did at Washington National Opera divided the opera-loving members of the United States Supreme Court. ‘Tristan’ to Open Met Season in 2016 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

He appeared on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opera, the Mostly Mozart Festival, Carnegie Hall and elsewhere. Brian Asawa, Celebrated Countertenor and Pathbreaker at the Met, Dies at 49 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

That one hire was for the role of Irina in Washington Opera’s 2016 production of Kurt Weill’s “Lost in the Stars.” That sound you’re hearing is classical music’s long overdue reckoning with racism 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

The 8 remaining dancers of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, down from 16 in 2011, have accepted buyout packages and left the company, their union confirmed on Monday. Metropolitan Opera Disbands Its Ballet Corps 2013-05-20T21:43:54Z

Amy Burton, a soprano who has sung with the Met Opera and teaches voice classes at Juilliard and the New School, noted that opera has shifted in the last two decades. Drama! Divas! Dates! A New Generation of Fans Discovers the Opera 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

“This decree is being called a decree of reform,” said Carlo Macalli, the first flutist of the orchestra of the Rome Opera and chairman of its players committee. Strikes Silence Italy?s Opera Houses 2010-05-04T23:05:00Z

The show, titled "Out of This World: Exploring Heaven, Hell, and Some Great Opera in Between," is for all ages and was put together by Seattle Opera education director Sue Elliott, who also narrates it. Opera goes laser at Pacific Science Center 2011-12-06T07:31:55Z

Opera powers He’s orrery, so her time in Hong Kong, like every other city in which she performs, is fleeting. Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

A major renovation of the Metropolitan Opera was never part of the overall concept, though last summer the stage was fortified with steel girders to support the 45-ton set for Robert Lepage’s new “Ring” production. Critic?s Notebook: A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face 2010-12-31T22:50:05Z

“Opera,” with its low thrum and clattering drum programming, hints at 1990s drum and bass; “Iceland,” with its reflective, slow-moving melody, suggests the brooding side of indie-rock. Albums From Jerry Lee Lewis and Daniel Lanois 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Heart of a Soldier will be performed seven times at the San Francisco Opera through the end of September. Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z

The Olivier awards' mass appeal may be bolstered by the announcement that Sheridan Smith, a two-time winner herself, will host the ceremony at the Royal Opera House, London, on 28 April. Olivier awards make triumphant return to TV 2013-01-29T13:23:12Z

Lincoln Center is the landlord of the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet and other independent institutions, which are responsible for their own programming. Lincoln Center, Seeking Wider Range, Names New Artistic Leader 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

The major sponsorships were for the Royal Opera House, helping the Tate show new work, and with the British Museum. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z

Around 18 years ago, Domingo took over the direction of the Washington National Opera, and then more than a decade ago became director of the young Los Angeles company. Placido Domingo moves goalposts on long opera career 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

His upcoming projects include a work based on the last hours of JFK's life for Fort Worth Opera. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

When it closed it had set a Broadway record at 7,485 performances — a record now held by Mr. Lloyd Webber’s other megahit, “The Phantom of the Opera,” with 11,864 and counting. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

Virginia Opera has taken some risks with its new season. Review | Can’t even sex sell opera? 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

While the Belfast Dutchman placed the action in 1970s Ireland, so Scottish Opera has updated it to the same period in the eastern fishing port of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z

A financially struggling Texas company, American Opera, underwritten by an opera-loving wife’s football team owner husband, needs a sensation to survive. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Though buffeted by the recession Seattle Opera has consistently balanced its budget without sacrificing artistic integrity , even if it has been forced to replace some ambitious pieces like “Tannhäuser” and “Don Carlo” with smaller ones. Music Review: Bernard Uzan, Director, Adds Context to Seattle?s ?Attila? 2012-01-26T22:27:32Z

Though the Metropolitan Opera opened its season this week, Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic were not about to cede the field of music drama entirely to their Lincoln Center neighbor. Review: The Philharmonic Shines Through Two Dark Operas 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

She and friends put on a concert for hundreds of dogs outside the Sydney Opera House, with the music emitted from speakers at a low, dog-friendly frequency. Laurie Anderson Puts on a Concert for Dogs in Times Square 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

Mezzo-soprano Sarah Larsen, however, is just waiting for Saturday, when she, Lade and seven other members of the Seattle Opera’s Young Artist Program will take a stage all their own. future maestros and mezzos at the Seattle Opera 2013-03-29T21:13:56Z

However his two movies fare at the BAFTAs, Scorsese will not leave London empty-handed after the ceremony at the Royal Opera House. Streep set for BAFTA glory in home of "Iron Lady" 2012-02-12T10:05:37Z

The company's general director, Anthony Freud, started last year after stints at the Washington National Opera and the Houston Grand Opera, so this season was largely planned before his arrival. Opera companies, notably in Seattle, face money trouble 2012-08-09T00:41:03Z

Several American companies, including the Metropolitan Opera and the San Francisco Opera, canceled Mr. Domingo’s upcoming appearances following the allegations. Disclosure of Plácido Domingo Allegations Scuttles $500,000 Deal 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mortier said repeatedly in interviews at the time that he was utterly committed to City Opera. Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera 2010-03-17T21:03:00Z

SALZBURG, Austria — For those who were dizzied by the artist William Kentridge’s frenetic productions of “The Nose” and “Lulu” at the Metropolitan Opera, he starts his extraordinary new “Wozzeck” with a self-deprecating joke. Review: William Kentridge’s Triumphant ‘Wozzeck’ Will Come to the Met Opera 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Madewithstring contrasted "Lee Hall's defence of equality" with "Opera North's defence of cowardice". Lee Hall and Opera North: how the story went viral 2011-07-05T12:37:37Z

City Ballet, just back from its summer season at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, alternates with the Bolshoi in “Rubies” and “Diamonds,” while Paris Opera Ballet delivers “Emeralds.” 10 Spring and Summer Dance Festivals 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

"Ghosts" has seldom been seen in its full grandeur since it debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1991. L.A. Opera goes for the epic with 'The Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

He contends that Mr. Steel’s decision for City Opera to leave Lincoln Center, after its theater there was renovated and renamed for David H. Koch, helped seal its fate. Reynold Levy’s New Book Names Names, Including the Met and Peter Gelb 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Two years ago, Julie Kent stood on the stage of the Kennedy Center Opera House for an ovation as a warmly appreciative audience bid farewell to the retiring American Ballet Theatre star. Washington Ballet’s season finale: Space Age world premiere & earthy classics​ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

So why did American Ballet Theater return to the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday with so little imagination? Ballet Theater Returns to the Met With a Gimmicky ‘Don Quixote’ 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

The Baftas will take place two weeks before the Oscars, on 10 February at the Royal Opera House in London, in a ceremony hosted by Stephen Fry. Baftas 2013: Lincoln looks unbeatable 2013-01-09T08:48:02Z

Washington National Opera, which she also leads, will also perform it at the Kennedy Center next year. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Over the summer, the board withdrew its motion to sell the City Opera name, saying that it preferred to see the company reorganized. A Group Cedes Its Bid to Revive City Opera to a Rival 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

When she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in December 2016, she was just the fourth woman conductor of a company that started in 1883. Mälkki could be 1st woman music director of NY Philharmonic 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

The genre has recently been revived by both fledging enterprises and the Metropolitan Opera. Music Review: Monteverdi’s ‘Ballo Delle Ingrate,’ With a Different Spin 2012-06-04T22:24:09Z

Sweeney Todd is the first production to result from the English National Opera's partnership with commercial producers Michael Grade and Michael Linnit. Thompson 'wept' over stage return 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

All at guardian.co.uk/extra The Bolshoi season is at the Royal Opera House, London, from 19 July to 8 August. Bolshoi ballet: Power and poise 2010-07-19T20:31:00Z

LYON, France — “Mesdames et messieurs,” a voice calmly boomed from the loudspeakers a few minutes into intermission at the Lyon Opera on July 7. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The International Freedom Center, the Joyce Theater, the Drawing Center, the Signature Theater, New York City Opera, a design by Frank Gehry — all were discussed as possibilities, but none went anywhere. It’s the Perelman Performing Arts Center, But Bloomberg Gave More 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Last month David Robertson conducted a searing account of “Billy Budd” at the Metropolitan Opera. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ at the English National Opera 2012-06-25T22:16:47Z

It was an implicit signal that they would not cross a picket line, should the Opera House Orchestra strike, de Boor said. Kennedy Center stagehands authorize strike, putting ‘Hadestown’ and other scheduled shows in jeopardy 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

New York's Metropolitan Opera also is searching for a new music director after announcing last month that James Levine will retire at the end of this season after 40 years. Luisotti to step down as SF Opera music director in 2018 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

According to center officials, the audience area created for the concert on the Opera House stage experienced four complete replacements of air each hour. Perspective | Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams sang at the Kennedy Center. And it turned the electricity back on. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

The Royal Opera Chorus were the star attraction in Nabucco, singing ‘with a gloriously sensitive unity’. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z

Opera North's education director Rebecca Walsh said it "promises to be an explosive introduction to opera for families". Pullman novel to become opera 2012-12-11T16:42:42Z

“Porgy” — which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Sunday after two years, its performances still exhilarating but its staging still blandly naturalistic — keeps raising questions over its three hours. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

David Devan, Opera Philadelphia’s general director and president, opted for the last option. Opera Philadelphia announces new festival for 2017 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

“In the beginning, the Opera in English series got a lot of criticism from the original-language snobs, but sales are increasing all the time, and more prestigious artists are asking to take part.” Peter Moores and His Campaign for Opera in English 2010-08-22T01:53:00Z

Opera, as it always has been, is here a home for emotions that could come across as flatly, implausibly extreme, but which are rendered newly mysterious and natural. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

He also wrote “The Threepenny Opera,” which the Salzburg Festival staged in 2015, with the composer Kurt Weill. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon, the New York City Opera premiered a new production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that captured some of these qualities but ultimately failed to do justice to the piece. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z

“We don’t have the clout of a Seattle Rep or Opera … to get audiences masked and vaccinated so we can keep our actors safe.” As more shows open in the Seattle area, how are ticket sales going? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Still, the announcement on Friday that he will be the next music director of the Paris Opera was somewhat surprising. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton It's Christmas in July at Covent Garden, and not only for diehard Massenet fans, who are hearing the Royal Opera perform his 1899 fairytale opera for the first time. Cendrillon ? review 2011-07-06T18:30:01Z

About Mr. Kaufmann: Opera circles have been abuzz with concern over whether his illness could be the sign of a vocal problem. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a sweaty little punk room or the Opera House,” Thompson said, “as long as people cry and lose their minds.” Camp Cope Is OK With Getting Big, If Fans Still ‘Cry and Lose Their Minds’ 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Speaking at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday, the author and TV presenter said she, like “everyone”, viewed #MeToo as an important moment. Nigella Lawson: 'We were always told we mustn't make a man feel bad about anything' 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

Opera as film — as distinct from a video of a stage production — is somewhat of a rarity, and “Soldier Songs” is unique in that respect among this year’s five Grammy nominees for best opera recording. Opera film ‘Soldier Songs’ about war trauma heads to Grammys 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

They were joined by Robert Getchell, whose light tenor, slightly nasal but pleasingly flexible, has been featured in several other Opera Lafayette performances. Subversive savages in a musical digestif 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Maybe it’s a little closer to the surface on “Southern Rock Opera.” “Maybe we can rejoin the Union with this one”: Drive-By Truckers are finally an “American Band” 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

As a teenager, Chiarelli worked backstage at the Opera House and tried out his nascent lighting-design skills wherever he could: bodybuilding shows, local dance schools. Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rico Chiarelli lights the way 2010-12-03T21:21:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera gave the premiere of “Vanessa” in 1958 and commissioned his “Antony and Cleopatra” to open the new opera house in 1966. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z

During the monologue, he takes the audience through the ideas and images that informed his production of the Dmitri Shostakovich opera "The Nose" at New York's Metropolitan Opera House last year. Artist William Kentridge on stage in South Africa 2011-09-17T12:29:12Z

She said her days of writing checks to the San Diego Opera are over: Don’t look for her in the seats of the Civic Theater next year. San Diego Opera Downsizes to Survive 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

The Santa Fe Opera has gambled that in this year of Menotti’s centennial the time has come for a fresh look at “The Last Savage.” Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z

Most critical will be the outcome of an investigation by the Los Angeles Opera, which Mr. Domingo was instrumental in founding in 1986. Accusations Against Plácido Domingo Divide the Opera World 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

The website is the brainchild of Benjamin Millepied, the French-born former New York City Ballet principal, who became the director of the Paris Opera Ballet in November last year. Paris Opera Introduces a Digital 'Third Stage' 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Baritone Michael Heitmann sings with the Seattle Opera chorus and teaches in the opera’s education department. Seattle classical-music, opera groups shake off dust to capture new audiences 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

His most recent outings were in San Francisco, first as a last-minute replacement conducting the San Francisco Opera’s new production of Handel’s “Partenope,” and then in a planned debut with the Philharmonia Baroque. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner

Under George Steel, City Opera’s new and energetic, if somewhat green, general manager, things seem to have stabilized, Mr. Rudel said. Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera 2010-03-17T21:03:00Z

On Thursday night, the company revived Puccini's "Girl of the Golden West," just one day shy of the 100th anniversary of the work's world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z

Ms. Mayrhofer, his co-author on “Orchestrated Expulsion,” has estimated that about 100 workers at the State Opera — from stagehands to choristers — were ousted, exiled or murdered after the events of 1938. An Orchestra Reflects on War and Its Aftermath 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

The transformation from oppression to freedom is at the core of “Fidelio,” which the small, adventurous company Heartbeat Opera is presenting through May 13 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in Manhattan. Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Probably his best opera, The Passenger, is due at English National Opera next season, where it will be directed by David Pountney. This week's new live music 2011-01-29T00:06:06Z

Earlier this year, Seattle Opera produced “Blue,” its third full, in-person production since pandemic shutdowns began in March 2020. As more shows open in the Seattle area, how are ticket sales going? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School are finally putting that right with this joint production of Gluck’s 1774 opera for Paris, based on a tragedy by Racine. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Opera houses most often roll out stagings of the four “Ring” works — “Das Rheingold,” “Die Walküre,” “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung” — over multiple years. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Washington National Opera's "Samson and Delilah" will be performed intermittently through March 21 at the Kennedy Center's Opera House. Review | ‘Samson and Delilah’ has old-school opera style and strengths 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

In 1975, while still in high school, he signed on with the fledgling Virginia Opera, which had been organized the previous year in Norfolk. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z

It is due to open next year and offer activities including drama workshops, collaborations with organisations such as Scottish Opera, instrument teaching and staging musicals. Andrew Lloyd Webber funds theatre for deprived youngsters 2011-08-14T17:57:44Z

Opera is musical drama, yes, but music matters more than the quality of productions. Let’s Talk About Risk at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

There’s a great story Minnie Driver tells about the director Joel Schumacher, who responded dryly after a co-star complained that Driver’s performance in “The Phantom of the Opera” was too over the top. Forget Naturalism. With Movie Acting This Year, Big Swings Are In. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Renowned artists in attendance included the baritone Sherrill Milnes, who spoke of being given early opportunities by Rudel at City Opera. Julius Rudel Gala Benefits City Opera Revival Hopes 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Franz Welser-Moest, one of Austria's most famous conductors, quit as musical director of Vienna's famed State Opera just days after its 2014-15 season began, citing an artistic clash with its director. Riccardo Muti bows out of conducting Rome opera amid strikes 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

A. It began with a festival at the Sydney Opera House. Neil Gaiman Follows the Guiding Light of Instinct 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

For her first “Romeo and Juliet,” a classic that she will revisit this month during Ballet Theater’s Metropolitan Opera House season, she imagined: What if it were a movie and not a ballet? This Ballerina Has a Mission: ‘Being as Human as Possible’ 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

Opera broadcasts in theatres had been an astounding success, and our manager had the idea for doing this with a different genre of music. Metallica gig to be broadcast live in cinemas 2010-06-21T12:12:00Z

Opera houses work very hard and artists put their life and soul into their work but there are a lot of good performances that come and go and are not recognized. Opera world stages its own awards as faces budget crunch 2013-02-15T13:38:46Z

Opera effort to appropriate ancient Greece was trivial in comparison. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The production is having its Dutch premiere with the National Opera in February. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The Soap Opera A year ago, our group of friends held a goodbye brunch for another friend who was moving to China. Social Q's : The Non-Parent Trap 2011-05-12T22:34:40Z

The evolution of Opera Saratoga, which changed its name from Lake George Opera in 2011 to better reflect its new home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is continuing. Opera Saratoga Season to Grow 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Opera singer Jessye Norman, who toasted Jones' work Saturday, said she admired him for being brave enough to stand alone at times in his advocacy on social and political issues. Winfrey, McCartney in DC for Kennedy Center Honors 2010-12-06T01:58:00Z

Before joining the Metropolitan Opera’s ballet corps, Ms. Horosko appeared on Broadway in the ensemble of “Oklahoma!” and in two musical revues. Marian Horosko, Dancer and Advocate for the Art, Dies at 92 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

It’s possible to go from zero singing experience to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. What It’s Like to Perform at the Met With No Opera Experience 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

In 1972 Goeran Gentele, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, announced plans for a “Piccolo Met,” but he was killed in a car accident just weeks after assuming the full responsibilities of his job. San Francisco Joins the Growing World of Small Operas 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

"The Phantom of the Opera" — not the ill-fated movie version, but a 25th-anniversary stage production from London's Royal Albert Hall — will screen at local theaters this week. Film fests: Local Sightings, Cinerama 2011-09-29T20:02:07Z

Half an hour of intermission separates the first and second acts of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” at the Metropolitan Opera. Review: ‘Madama Butterfly’ Showcases Ana María Martínez 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

Those who recently saw Cooke in Seattle Opera’s winning production of “Hansel & Gretel” are in for a major revelation as they discover the spiritual core of her artistry. Uplifting music, deep themes: Seattle Symphony to perform Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Leech joined the Houston Grand Opera as chief operating officer in 2010, after a 27-year career in production at theaters and opera companies that include the English National Opera and the Welsh National Opera. Houston opera conductor named new music director 2011-05-26T03:52:08Z

He added: “We wish to continue our work along with our colleagues from the Bucharest National Opera for Romania’s prestige worldwide.” Romania's Culture Minister Steps Down as Ballet Dispute Continues 1467-12-17T05:00:00Z

It was an appointment that met with a mixed response, even though Lefèvre had attended the Paris Opera Ballet School and danced with the company for 11 years. Brigitte Lefèvre, Ballet’s Disciplined Rebel, Takes Her Next Steps 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

“A House in Bali,” a two-act that opened at the Howard Gilman Opera House on Thursday night, is among Mr. Ziporyn’s most ambitious efforts at bridging Eastern and Western styles. Music Review: Moved by Music of the Tropics, A Composer Moves to Them 2010-10-16T01:00:00Z

In April, it was reported that the orchestra for “The Phantom of the Opera” in London would be slashed in half when it reopens, with percussion, harp and oboe replaced by keyboards. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s New Act: Activism 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

She has not abandoned the ballet world — she still creates ballets and is studying privately with Isabelle Guérin, the former Paris Opera Ballet étoile — but she doesn’t see herself as an ordinary ballerina. A Ballerina Finds Her Modern Dance Home: It ‘Feels Limitless’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian It took the Royal Opera 85 years to get round to staging La Rondine, Puccini's slender, uncharacteristically introverted tale of youthful innocence pursued and lost. La Rondine Royal Opera House review 2013-07-08T09:38:21Z

Publicly, Mr. Domingo, 79, a famed tenor who held leadership positions at the Los Angeles Opera and the Washington National Opera, issued his fullest apology yet. Disclosure of Plácido Domingo Allegations Scuttles $500,000 Deal 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

You may grow weary of an umpteenth revival – though in Tosca terms this production is barely toddling; the Royal Opera's last, by Zeffirelli, endured 40 years. Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z

He seemed more interested in discussing Animal Crackers and A Night at the Opera. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z

He previously served as assistant artistic director at Houston Grand Opera. Outspoken Music Scholar to Lead Spoleto Festival 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Niska appeared in 29 lead roles with New York City Opera, more than any other singer. Maralin Niska, Lyric Soprano at New York City Opera Who Won Hearts, Dies at 89 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Under his guidance, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s young artist program has become notably strong, even in a field crowded with young-artist programs. In 39th season, Opera Theater of St. Louis shows good health, new work

Somehow, she closed her eyes and transformed the barracks into the Budapest Opera House. Mind power in Auschwitz – and healing decades later 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

He is now back at his day job, as artistic director of Russia’s Perm State Opera and Ballet Theatre. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Opera America gives four annual trustee awards, for board leaders of large, mid-size, small and very small companies. Long Beach Opera leader wins national award for opera trustees 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Opera's Figaro cycle is not being performed in chronological order , which would have given "The Ghosts of Versailles" even more cumulative impact if placed after "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro." Opera 'Ghosts of Versailles' may live forever 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

And for longtime fans of "Porgy and Bess," Seattle Opera finds new hues and nuances in the beloved opera without distorting it. Seattle Opera's new "Porgy and Bess" something to savor | Opera review 2011-08-01T04:46:04Z

They make powerfully affecting the final break between a dispirited Moriarty, who meets up with a newly confident, smartly dressed Sal Paradise just off to a Duke Ellington concert at the Metropolitan Opera. On the Road – review 2012-10-13T23:06:07Z

Two other companies that tour productions throughout England, Welsh National Opera and Glyndebourne Productions, saw funding drop by over 30 percent. Britain’s Major Opera Companies Suffer in Arts Spending Shake-Up 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

In other words, it’s not clear whether your chances of living longer are improved by choosing “Die Walküre” over “The Phantom of the Opera.” Another Benefit to Going to Museums? You May Live Longer 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

Opera programs, as a whole, could use more of it. Review | Opera trains the best young singers. At Wolf Trap Barns, a recent performance revealed a young artist. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Created for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2004, it has been presented by a number of midsize companies around the country. San Diego Opera seizes the hour with prophetic 'Nixon in China' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Until this year, when New York City Opera ceded the time slot, audiences had to wait until late November and “The Nutcracker” to see the company, and City Ballet often toured abroad at this time. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

Perhaps there are creative ways to create collaborative models with the forces at hand — a program or series devised by NSO musicians, or members of the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra. Perspective | Kennedy Center seeks creativity. Making artists into administrators may not be the answer. 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

The concert will include songs from “West Side Story,” “Man of La Mancha,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and other popular shows. | New Brunswick: For a Gala Concert, 90 Years of Songs 2011-05-15T03:30:05Z

Mr. Pountney, who runs the Bregenz Festival in Austria and has just taken charge of the Welsh National Opera, has supplied librettos for two other Davies theater scores. Peter Maxwell Davies?s New Opera, ?Kommilitonen!? 2011-11-12T22:15:07Z

But thanks to fast work by Opera Philadelphia and the Apollo, which teamed up to save the production, New Yorkers will get to hear “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird” after all, the two organizations announced Wednesday. Charlie Parker Opera Will Go On 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Opera singers are usually used to having a role they sing often and stepping in without much rehearsal. Kelli O'Hara talks 'Merry Widow,' 'Peter Pan Live' and 'King and I' 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Vienna State Opera house - known as the Wiener Staatsoper - is one of the busiest in the world, producing 50 to 60 operas a year in approximately 200 performances. Opera house told to make savings 2012-07-27T14:40:34Z

Rehearsals for Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera” ended near dawn on Aug. 31, 1928, the day of its premiere. Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

But until it finds its footing again, New York City Opera is dogged by its own name, with all the associations to what it was. Identity Shifts for New York City Opera 2012-06-01T14:12:32Z

In her tender, whip-smart new opera, “The Romance of the Rose,” which premiered this weekend at Long Beach Opera, she quotes a chunk of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” that poses another query: “What is love?” Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

In “The Phantom of the Opera,” it is the Phantom who dislodges the chandelier from the ceiling. An Opera House Inspired by More Than Music 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

I was 11 years old in suburban Illinois, PBS was showing a broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, and I had quite suddenly found what I wanted to do: sing. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

As he did with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in June, Nézet-Séguin reveled in the power of a full orchestra. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

In some of the most ready-to-party looks, McCartney offered silky and fluid gowns embellished with luxurious metallic beaded designs, presented in the corridors of the sumptuous Opera Garnier. Animal mascots take to the catwalk for Stella McCartney show 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

He became its chief conductor and led the orchestra on the opening night of the Sydney Opera House in 1973. Charles Mackerras dies 2010-07-15T08:55:00Z

Opera is mounting only this and two ubiquitous Puccini operas — "Madame Butterfly" and "La Bohème." L.A. Opera again casts an enchanting spell with its silent-movie-styled ' Magic Flute' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

The Nuns Who Revolted Against the Revolution It is only natural for the Metropolitan Opera to refresh its offerings regularly with new productions, even when an old one has been successful. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z

And the work’s comeback may have reached its peak at the Bavarian State Opera. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

The work will make its debut in June 2011 at the English National Opera, which will share in the production’s cost with the Met. 2010-02-12T18:56:00Z

It was followed by another Lloyd Webber hit, “The Phantom of the Opera,” and both shows ran for several years. ‘Tarzan’ and ‘Lion King’ Make Hamburg a Theater City 2012-12-09T20:23:34Z

Shortly before President Trump’s inauguration, Washington National Opera presented the premiere of “The Dictator’s Wife,” an opera about authoritarianism; the composer, Mohammed Fairouz, spoke about its associations with the Trumps. She’s Putting Her Mark on the Kennedy Center 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The guest appearance led the Paris Opera to suspend her in a contract dispute over her desire to freelance, and in 1949 she left the company for the second time. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Opera, is scheduled to star in the title role of the comic opera.  L.A. Opera to simulcast season opener starring Placido Domingo 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Steel would seem to be doing everything right to present opera as a living, breathing form of theater and offer works that you are not likely to see next door at the Metropolitan Opera. City Opera Faces Hard Times With Daring 2010-12-18T23:20:19Z

When the National Ballet of Canada seized the Kennedy Center Opera House stage on Tuesday with so much swift, extreme movement, I was almost dazed by intermission. Review | National Ballet of Canada dazzles with exhilarating energy at the Kennedy Center 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

The soloist here was the young tenor Joseph Kaiser, who won fans at the Metropolitan Opera this spring singing Flamand in Strauss’s “Capriccio,” which starred Renée Fleming. Music Review: Unfinished Works at Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-28T19:03:32Z

A spokesman for the Royal Opera said in an email that Charles, its patron, attended performances several times a year “both in a formal and informal capacity.” With a New King, Arts Institutions Seek New Patrons 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Looking at grim financial reality, Mr. Steel and his board believe they have come up with the only way to keep City Opera going. Critic?s Notebook: For an Opera Company, a Troubled Vision Quest 2011-07-13T11:48:19Z

Los Angeles Opera receives a $10,200 artists in schools grant for “Voices of Tolerance,” which sends teaching artists into schools to develop their performing skills around themes of diversity and tolerance. California state arts grants rise $1 million in key categories 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Then Ms. Sills, in her 30s and a City Opera regular though not yet a huge star, demanded the role for herself. Phyllis Curtin, American Soprano Who Championed New Music, Dies at 94 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Rumours is McCartney-ish English psychedelia with a rueful lyric about a jealous would-be suitor spreading untruths, lifted out of the workaday by Mark "Teenage Opera" Wirtz's ornate production. Readers recommend: songs about gossip ? the results 2011-03-03T13:03:50Z

That production uses the traditional storybook sets of the Norwegian National Opera’s 1963 “Bohème,” but begins with a bleakly modern scene: a hospital room in which a man’s lover has just died of cancer. ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

The Dallas Opera is starting an online subscription streaming service. Dallas Opera launches online subscription streaming service 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

In a career spanning almost 40 years, Tocilescu directed dozens of productions at the famed Bulandra theater in Bucharest, the Romanian Opera, and other theaters. Well-known Romanian theater director dies 2011-11-30T14:10:13Z

Here and throughout the weekend, the indefatigable City Opera orchestra played with spirit under several conductors. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z

I spent five years at English National Opera with Puccini, Wagner and contemporary repertoire. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

The Operas, which will be presented at a ceremony in London on April 22, are the brainchild of Opera Magazine and British businessman Harry Hyman. Opera world stages its own awards as faces budget crunch 2013-02-15T13:38:46Z

Mr. Davis’s first opera, “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” was a landmark success at the New York City Opera in 1986. For the Met Opera, the Pandemic Could Be a Necessary Reset 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

A wonder of the age … Placido Domingo in Nabucco at the Royal Opera House, London. Nabucco – review 2013-04-16T16:07:34Z

Companionship is also at the core of “Non Solus,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where a curtain of sorts obscures the stage of the Howard Gilman Opera House before the show begins. Suspended in Air, Searching for Connection in Two High-Flying Shows 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

A large crowd turned out for a 7:30 p.m. show to hear excerpts from the work, which received its premiere at the English National Opera in 2011. Music Review: Nico Muhly Previews His ‘Two Boys’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-05-15T20:05:23Z

This concert, filmed last November at the Sydney Opera House, is a ton of fun — a terrific set list, the correct amount of banter and just enough shots of musicians thoughtfully tooting away. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

This weekend, Swindon: the Opera is playing in a cavernous workshed where they once built the great locomotives that steamed up and down the Great Western Railway. Take your seats for Swindon: the Opera 2012-07-06T18:17:28Z

A staging at the Opera Theater of St. Louis in 2011 was an occasion less for demonstrations than for interfaith dialogue. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The event includes a celebration at the Kennedy Center Opera House, with salutes from other performers. 2016 Kennedy Center Honors go to the Eagles, Al Pacino, Mavis Staples and more 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

A second production of that double bill will come to the Hamburg State Opera in the fall of 2016. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Shine directed 16 productions with the company, including a successful recent run of "The Threepenny Opera." Seattle Shakespeare's Stephanie Shine leaving 2011-03-11T01:52:07Z

She was also a mainstay at the San Francisco Opera, where she sang for many years. Licia Albanese, Exalted Soprano, Is Dead at 105 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

The organizers of Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now, an invaluable annual festival now in its third year, deserve credit for bringing Carmina Slovenica here. Carmina Slovenica Sings the Haunting ‘Toxic Psalms’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

He wrote the scores for “Cats,” “Phantom of the Opera” and “School of Rock” as well as “Sunset Boulevard,” which is based on a 1950 film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Gloria Swanson. Glenn Close Will Star, Again, in ‘Sunset Boulevard’ on Broadway 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

A version of this review appears in print on May 5, 2014, on page C3 of the with the headline: Insanely Pursuing Love, Be It Opera or Reality Show. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘Orlando Paladino’ at Manhattan School of Music 2014-05-04T21:38:14Z

The Paris Opera Ballet said in a statement on Friday that he would take up the position on Dec. 5, almost six months after the surprise resignation in June of its previous director, Aurélie Dupont. José Martinez Named New Director of Paris Opera Ballet 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

George Condo, On View In and Outside the Metropolitan Opera House A large black-and-white banner featuring a court jester by the artist George Condo is currently up on the façade of the Metropolitan Opera House. ArtsBeat: George Condo, On View In and Outside the Metropolitan Opera House 2013-01-25T21:44:41Z

After a year with the Vienna State Opera in 1981, she signed a contract with the Met, where she sang for the next seven years. Barbara Smith Conrad, Singer at Center of Integration Dispute, Dies at 79 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

If this “Dutchman” — a co-production with Dutch National Opera, the Abu Dhabi Festival and Opéra de Québec, which premiered it last summer — isn’t the right thing, it’s hard to know what would be. The Met Opera’s ‘Dutchman’ Sails Into Port With a New Star 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

A scheduling conflict forced Hathaway out of an earlier movie musical, "The Phantom of the Opera." Hollywood's 3 Bs for fall: Bond, Bella, Bilbo 2012-08-22T19:51:09Z

Though the baroque revival has forced a major reappraisal of much of Telemann's colossal output, his operas remain unknown quantities, and Classical Opera's Orpheus at this year's London Handel festival was to be welcomed. Orpheus – review 2013-03-20T18:33:58Z

For two months every year, stadium seating is erected in the Royal Botanic Gardens, by the lapping waters of Sydney Harbor and facing the floodlit Opera House. In Sydney, Lively Culture Amid Natural Beauty 2014-04-11T18:04:18Z

The two companies had been complementary: the Lyric focused on the standards, and Opera Boston’s specialty was new and more esoteric works. Music Review: ?The Lighthouse,? From Boston Lyric Opera 2012-02-09T23:07:11Z

“I had in quick succession in Europe debuts at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera and the Salzburg Festival,” he said. Eric Owens as Alberich in Wagner?s ?Ring? at the Met 2012-02-18T05:03:04Z

Further Pennsylvania adventures: On Friday, Opera Philadelphia gives the world premiere of “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird,” which tells the sad story of that jazz icon, who died in 1955 at just 34. Classical Music This Week: A Jersey Search, Beethoven Galore and Schulhoff 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

For authenticity, said Bennett from San Diego Opera, it was important to round out the creative team with Mexican artists and to hire native Spanish-speaking singers for the two leads. From the Underworld to Our World: An Opera About Frida and Diego 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rattle’s all-but-official fall residency in New York, which included his superb conducting of “Tristan und Isolde” at the Metropolitan Opera, is now over. Dreaming Up a Mahler Symphony That Never Was 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

His new staging, which opened Saturday at the Royal Opera House in London, is an engrossing production with a fine cast, highlighted by baritone Christian Gerhaher in a sensational debut. Wagner's 'Tannhaeuser' in time of war 2010-12-13T15:00:00Z

There have been many voices at the Metropolitan Opera, but only a few voices of the Metropolitan Opera. Mary Jo Heath Will Be New Radio Host for Metropolitan Opera 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

What did he think about the Nureyev versions of the big classical ballets that the Opera performs? ArtsBeat: At Press Conference, Benjamin Millepied Responds to Questions About New Paris Opera Ballet Post 2013-01-24T19:49:32Z

Just before the end of this milestone comeback season at the Metropolitan Opera, the slot has returned. Review: A ‘Rake’ Takes a Treasured Spot in the Opera Season 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Davis’s deep experience in opera includes a 15-year tenure as music director of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden in London. Alt-Verdi: ?Otello,? Differently 2010-12-24T14:54:24Z

Carlo Fuortes, the general manager of the Rome Opera, said in an email that there had been no prosecutions against Mr. Gatti and noted that the allegations go back 20 years. Two Star Conductors Faced #MeToo Allegations. Now They’re Back. 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

At 36, she is one of a select group of singers being groomed by the Metropolitan Opera. Beautiful, young Met soprano has a darker past she wants to share 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Photographs of his previous installations will be showcased at a pop-up gallery on the Piazza at Unit 5, Royal Opera House Arcade. 100,000 Balloons Fill London’s Covent Garden 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

The Opera House orchestra performed Gabriel Faure’s gossamer French modernism with a light touch. Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Atmosphere came late to the party 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

Unlike past Washington Concert Opera performances, this one didn’t have any established stars, although all the leads are embarked on burgeoning international careers. Review | Silly humor of dated plot underlines joy of opera 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

He is writing a piece for the Metropolitan Opera, where he was once an assistant conductor. Composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin is tapped to join L.A. Opera as an artist in residence 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

“Phantom of the Paradise”: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” meets “Phantom of the Opera” in this over-the-top horror musical about an aspiring lyricist out for revenge after a producer steals his work. What You Should Watch This Father’s Day Weekend 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Last year his debut production as an opera director, directing Billy Budd, received rave reviews at Glyndebourne; and next year he will direct Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Donmar theatre's Michael Grandage to step down 2010-09-30T23:38:00Z

Alexander Neef, the general director of the Canadian Opera Company, laments the difficulty of finding real contraltos to fuel the continuing renaissance of Baroque opera, with its many roles originally geared to castratos. Avery Amereau Is a Rarity in Music: A Contralto 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

“Opera has been in my blood since I was little,” she said in an interview at the Met on Friday. Ann Ziff Gives $30 Million to Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-26T22:22:00Z

After a series of conducting posts elsewhere, he was named music director at London's Royal Opera House in 2002. A Minute With:-Royal Opera's Pappano: "No idea I'd be a conductor" 2013-10-16T13:02:56Z

The decision to build the center near most of the city’s cultural institutions, including the San Francisco Symphony, Ballet and Opera, and the Herbst Theater, is a canny move. Arts: Sleepy Jazz Scene Shows Signs of Awakening 2010-05-16T01:58:00Z

A Royal Opera House high-definition production of Bizet’s “Carmen,” filmed in traditional 3-D, is due for widespread release in movie theaters on March 5. 3-D Comes to Met Opera, but Without Those Undignified Glasses 2011-02-16T00:00:12Z

The American occupied top positions at the Vienna State Opera and the New York Philharmonic, which he accompanied on a 2008 tour of isolated North Korea. Famed conductor Lorin Maazel dies 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

Her work as a novelist and screenwriter helps her keep the pacing swift and the prose dynamic — the chapters on the creation of “The Threepenny Opera” are almost unbearably suspenseful. Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

Opera productions that date tend to have a bit too much topicality in them. The Rake's Progress: when Hockney met Hogarth 2010-08-02T20:30:00Z

Opera’s season conducting six performances of Verdi’s “La Traviata” starting Sept. 13. James Conlon to quit post with Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

For years City Opera has nurtured such a fantasy. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z

The Paris Opera Ballet statement says he will “renounce his choreographic activity” in order to focus on directing the company. José Martinez Named New Director of Paris Opera Ballet 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Opera, with its recurring themes of sex, death and betrayal, is traditionally adult entertainment. Fox pop: English Touring Opera gives Roald Dahl back to the kids 2011-02-17T22:26:00Z

Opera fans and theater audiences have had some experience with works that eschew linear narratives, like “Einstein on the Beach.” Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The new production of Handel's "Hercules" at Lyric Opera of Chicago goes well beyond that. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z

The stage of the Howard Gilman Opera House is enclosed on three sides by green-gray walls. Review: Contortions en Route to Resurrection in Shen Wei’s ‘Neither’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“As the director of a theater myself, I know the importance of new operas,” said Mr. Domingo, who is general director of the Los Angeles Opera. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z

Ms. Jones left City Opera in 1960 at the request of her husband, the doctor and civil rights activist George Kaufman, who asked that she spend more evenings with him and their three children. Elayne Jones, Pioneering Percussionist, Is Dead at 94 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Even for those of us who were pleasantly surprised at how smoothly and strongly the opera came across at City Opera, this new version is vital. Cuts, Big and Small, Transform Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Operas are no stranger to melodrama, but it usually doesn't involve an elected official. Punch up after opera costs Armenian mayor his job 2010-12-09T16:51:00Z

In Seattle Opera’s current production, you can feel the frisson that goes through the audience when the orchestra starts the introduction to one of the most famous arias in all opera, “La donna è mobile.” Seattle Opera’s ‘Rigoletto’ a triumph of singing, acting, playing 2014-01-13T18:59:07Z

City Opera is now operating on a shoestring, offering orchestra and chorus members minimum fees for no more than four planned productions this season. New York City Opera announces musician lockout 2012-01-08T19:32:09Z

“You do more shows, you lose more money,” said City Opera’s general manager and artistic director, George R. Steel. How People?s Opera Orchestrated Its Peril 2011-06-15T13:37:18Z

Albanese, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen, also sang for two decades with the San Francisco Opera and recorded frequently. Italian-born soprano Licia Albanese dies in New York at 105 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

The giant in the field of live simulcasts of performances is still the Metropolitan Opera, whose pioneering Live in HDseries is entering its 10th season. Lincoln Center Announces Dance-Film Lineup 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Amid criticism about cultural appropriation and representation, Seattle Opera takes different tack with Puccini’s popular work. Cultural controversy swirls around Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

The company announced on Tuesday that it would present the complete Wagner “Ring” cycle that it had commissioned with the San Francisco Opera but suspended because of money problems. ArtsBeat: Washington National Opera to Present 'Ring' Cycle in 2016 2012-01-10T21:23:36Z

At the Metropolitan Opera on May 16, she debuted as Kitri, the female lead in “Don Quixote,” and on Friday, she performed the title part in “Giselle” in New York for the first time. Misty Copeland’s Down-to-Earth Debuts in ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Giselle’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

This 2018 production by Opera Parallèle — presented as part of this year’s digital edition of Glass’s Days and Nights Festival — has turned me around on the work. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

It was the Lyric’s first performance since the closing of Opera Boston, this city’s “second” opera company, at the end of last year. Music Review: ?The Lighthouse,? From Boston Lyric Opera 2012-02-09T23:07:11Z

Opera singer Placido Domingo is preparing to perform to an audience of thousands at the O2 Arena in London. VIDEO: Placido Domingo: 'If I rest, I rust' 2011-07-28T11:17:32Z

The Metropolitan Opera announced Monday that it had commissioned a new opera about Russia’s abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children, the latest action by the company to show support for war-torn Ukraine. The Met Commissions an Opera About Abducted Ukrainian Children 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z

After 16 months, San Francisco Opera did return last week to live performance with “The Barber of Seville,” but not indoors at the War Memorial, its usual home. Rossini at the Drive-In, as San Francisco Opera Returns 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

Here’s your annual reminder that the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra is a world-class concert ensemble. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Thanks to Charles MacKay, the general director of the Santa Fe Opera, it is finally possible to experience this mystical, challenging and viscerally dramatic opera, which had such a torturous path to production. Music Review: Overdue Debut for Lewis Spratlan Opera in Santa Fe 2010-07-25T23:29:00Z

On June 6, City Opera will present an abridged concert version of “Treemonisha,” the groundbreaking opera by the composer Scott Joplin about a young, intelligent black woman who helps educate her superstitious Arkansas community. Second Season Is Set for New York City Opera and Schomburg Center 2010-09-29T14:56:00Z

Verdi wrote “Don Carlos,” based on the play about the intersecting private and public passions at the court of Philip II of Spain by Friedrich Schiller, for the Paris Opera in 1867. Music Review: ‘Don Carlos,’ in Its Original Tongue, Reveals Intricacies 2013-07-21T22:00:53Z

The pandemic also caused the Metropolitan Opera to miss a season for the first time, and it hopes to start its season in September. Pandemic causes Carnegie Hall to miss season for 1st time 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

With Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel continuing to win fans at six, this week's seventh place was left to the Met Opera of New York's live relay of La Boheme. Macaws challenge Marvel at UK cinemas 2014-04-09T14:59:36Z

Continues through May 21 at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan; metopera.org. Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles Opera offers fewer new productions, Long Beach Opera co-produces with a Chicago troupe, and Opera Pacific, which staged the SoCal premiere of "Dead Man Walking" in 2004, went bankrupt seven years ago. Opera is here to stay, says 'Dead Man Walking' composer Jake Heggie 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Reich is the latest in a series of prominent artists who have come to the Royal Opera House to work with Mr. McGregor; one reason Ms. Mason’s decision was a good one. Review: A Decade On, Wayne McGregor Continues to Energize the Royal Ballet 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

So where does this leave City Opera for the future? Critic’s Notebook: City Opera Might Do Best at City Center 2013-04-26T23:56:25Z

The Washington National Opera borrowed from the same playbook for its Opera Ball and upped the game. The French ambassador’s house has reopened? Now that’s a gala event. 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Opera knows a little something about conflating Julius Caesar with an American president. Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, the opening night of Seattle Opera’s “Madame Butterfly” had a bit of extra drama: two Lieutenant Pinkertons. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ packs an emotional punch 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Last year, the government gave the Royal Opera House £35.8 million, or about $40 million, equivalent to 43 percent of the house’s total income, including for the Royal Ballet. Jakub Hrusa Set to Lead Royal Opera House 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

He was a principal in the Metropolitan Opera before going to Philadelphia. ArtsBeat: New York Philharmonic Hires Ricardo Morales 2011-04-26T14:41:17Z

Opera Boston, a small company known for innovative works, is shutting down because of financial problems, the board said in a statement on Friday, according to news media in Boston. ArtsBeat Blog: Opera Boston to Shut Down 2011-12-23T20:11:05Z

But as the soprano Christine Goerke basked in a standing ovation in February with the Canadian Opera Company here, the moment took on extra resonance. After a Soprano’s Crisis, a Brünnhilde Is Born 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

What the audience in the Kennedy Center Opera House saw Saturday night was a perfectly fine “Traviata” that checked all the boxes. Review | Washington National Opera appeases traditionalists with a safe ‘Traviata’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Opera program participants who will find themselves in the encouraging company of not only Graham but also of General Director Plácido Domingo. With some big opera names behind it, Young Artist Program aims even higher 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

She has logged more than 100 performances in the part, at the Metropolitan Opera, the Sydney Opera and elsewhere. Opera preview: 'Madama Butterfly' at Seattle Opera 2012-04-25T20:40:08Z

Opera plays its Trump card: yes, the president is showing up in Verdi. Perspective | Women give voice to a male canon. It happens to be ancient Greek. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

He was signed up to sing multiple roles there, starting with the lustful dwarf Alberich in the company’s new “Ring” cycle, a coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera that was meant to head to New York. An Opera Company’s Precarious Future Has Some Worried About a Ripple Effect 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

As Opera News reported in its obituary this week, the soprano Eileen Farrell once recounted what happened when she sang the part of the beleaguered peasant girl Santuzza opposite Ms. Chookasian in the 1960s. Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z

"Brahms Afoot," performed to live music by Seattle's new Inverse Opera, will debut at "Project 5," SDP's latest showcase. Local dancer Ezra Dickinson: What can't he do? 2012-01-19T20:45:04Z

Alan Gordon, the union’s national executive director, said the group might also seek an injunction to keep the company from using the name New York City Opera. Union Ponders Labor Charges 2011-05-22T21:15:05Z

Since his 2007 debut at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been a presence there, too, most recently in Bizet’s “Carmen” last year. Louis Langrée, Mr. Mostly Mozart, Brings His Cincinnati, and Tchaikovsky, to New York 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

When the curtains finally close after three years of sporadic touring, they will close on the Sydney Opera House stage. Ira Glass: 'I feel like I’m actually sort of scared all the time' 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Seattle Opera also presents “opera camps,” workshops and other programs for school breaks and summer holidays. At Seattle Opera, not resting on the ‘Ring’ 2013-08-22T02:38:02Z

A fine piece of advice from a rock star making his Metropolitan Opera House debut. Music Review: Sting?s Songbook at the Met, With Strings Attached 2010-07-14T20:35:00Z

Bullock, a founding member of American Modern Opera Company, said her organization was looking into formalizing financial support for artists who needed to travel with young children. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

She later served for many years as director of Opera Illinois, director of the Choral Institute in Aspen, Colo., and professor and choral department chair at Indiana University, her alma mater. Fiora Corradetti Contino, trailblazing female conductor, dies at 91 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The opera company, which splits its season between the Sydney Opera House and the Arts Center Melbourne, dives into an epic staging of Wagner’s “The Ring Cycle” in Melbourne this fall. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Her death was announced by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, where she had performed for many years as a principal, and later as a guest, of its resident company the Royal Ballet. Lynn Seymour, Acclaimed Ballerina and a Dramatic Force, Dies at 83 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

Wind seemed to whip through the trees that arced over the Kennedy Center Opera House stage, with slashes of fiery color suggesting autumnal branches in motion. Uncommonly intimate ‘Giselle’ at the Kennedy Center

Opera wheeled 90 racks holding more than 1,000 of its costumes into a downtown parking lot for a rare public sale. Devil horns and diva dresses fly off the rack at L.A. Opera costume sale 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Met’s Replacement Gets in Tune Opera singers drop out of productions left and right. Met?s Replacement Gets in Tune 2010-09-21T22:09:00Z

Opera Tampa officials had bought out his contract in July because they had concerns, according to reports. Assaults in dressing rooms. Groping during lessons. Classical musicians reveal a profession rife with harassment. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

In contrast, the Los Angeles Opera gets about 5 percent of its income from public grants; the Met, about 0.5 percent. An Opera Company’s Precarious Future Has Some Worried About a Ripple Effect 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

When Lotte de Beer’s new production of Verdi’s “Aida” recently premiered at the Paris Opera — not to a full house, but to an audience online — she was just relieved it was happening. A New ‘Aida’ Lands in the Middle of France’s Culture Wars 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Years later, after his discovery of “Paint, Powder and Makeup,” he began experimenting with transforming himself into “the classic monsters” — mummies, werewolves, the Phantom of the Opera, Mr. Hyde. Dick Smith Dies at 92; Makeup Artist of Vast Reach 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

In Mr. Groban’s message, he sang snippets of “Not While I’m Around” from “Sweeney Todd,” a number he performed at Ms. Cook’s behest at her concert at the Metropolitan Opera in 2006. In Barbara Cook’s Final Days, Her Friends Came to Sing at Her Bedside 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Opera houses are in a spin because leading sopranos are parked, like 747s, in the wrong place right round the globe. Smiling in the face of ash 2010-04-18T16:30:00Z

It wasn’t until 1955 that Marian Anderson became the first African American artist to perform at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Northwest African American Museum and Seattle Opera team up for drive-in concert film celebrating Black voices 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

It features concerts and profiles, beginning with a documentary on the band’s acclaimed album “A Night at the Opera.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘O.G.’ and the Film Independent Spirit Awards 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

After talking, fantasizing and plotting about it for years, New York City Opera is moving out of Lincoln Center. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z

After accepting a Royal Opera commission Mr. Adès made clear that he intended to write his own kind of major-house opera his own way. New Operas at the Met Prove to Be Rare Breed 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z

In the opera house, Washington National Opera will stage new productions of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat" in May 2013 and Bellini's "Norma" in March 2013. Kennedy Center plans Nordic arts festival in 2013 2012-03-06T16:52:10Z

“The idea of City Opera and Mortier was silly,” said Mr. Epstein, the artist manager. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z

The Metropolitan Opera said in a statement that “if a pregnant singer wishes to perform, we make sure it is safe for them to do so.” What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

To underestimate the uproar is to ignore the place that the Vienna Opera Ball holds in the hearts of Austrians. Ruby's presence shakes up staid Vienna Opera Ball 2011-03-03T14:17:28Z

However, the staging has been rethought by Ron Daniels, based somewhat on his well-traveled, vividly cinematic, smoldering production of Bizet’s opera that the now defunct Opera Pacific picked up back in 2001. L.A. Opera opens its new season with 'Carmen,' again 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

Nelson made his name playing venues like Austin City Limits and the Austin Opera House, and for much of that time photographer Scott Newton was by his side. Happy Birthday Willie Nelson: Rare Photos from the 70s and 80s 2013-04-30T16:13:49Z

The company’s general director, Anthony Freud, started last year after stints at the Washington National Opera and the Houston Grand Opera, so this season was largely planned before his arrival. Critic’s Notebook: U.S. Opera Companies, Notably in Seattle, Face Money Trouble 2012-08-08T22:30:39Z

Opera, said the company would continue to look for ways to push digital boundaries. Los Angeles Opera comes to the beach in Santa Monica 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Opera singers, like ballet dancers and professional athletes, all face expiration dates. A Singer Brings His Authentic Self to the Philharmonic 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

The evening before, Dallas Opera presented the world premiere of Heggie's "Great Scott," a comic opera able to attract a great American cast led by Joyce DiDonato. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Opening in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday, Nov. 5, Alban Berg’s “Lulu” is a rich fantasia on the themes of memory, lust and death. In ‘Lulu,’ the Question That Stops an Opera 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

But until recently, his only opera was thought to be a childhood effort, composed when he was 13 and produced at the Paris Opera in 1825. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

In 1956, the American Theater Wing broke with tradition to give an award for “distinguished Off Broadway production” to “The Threepenny Opera,” making it the first Off Broadway show to receive a Tony. Stanley Chase Dies at 87; Gave New York Macheath 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Costanzo, who triumphed in the title role of Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten” at the Metropolitan Opera last fall, which now feels long ago, was in fine voice and made an affable host. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

She went on to perform 199 times at the Metropolitan Opera, performing all the major Verdi roles, as well as roles from Mozart, Puccini and others. Joel, Santana to receive Kennedy Center Honors 2013-09-12T16:31:51Z

It is a sequel to the phenomenally successful Phantom of the Opera production. 2010-01-11T14:23:00Z

At both the Bavarian State Opera this December and at the Met, from May 26 to June 9, he will take on the classic role of Rodolfo in Puccini’s “La Bohème.” An American Tenor Is ‘at Home Everywhere’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

But earlier this year, after speaking to a Post reporter, Follman confided in a friend, who immediately contacted the Florentine Opera board. Assaults in dressing rooms. Groping during lessons. Classical musicians reveal a profession rife with harassment. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

“It is irrational and interferes with the business of presenting artistic events,” said Nathalie Wagner, president of the Wagner Society of New York and a longtime Opera News subscriber. Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z

In a way the performance had the hallmarks of what City Opera has traditionally promised its audiences, especially in the standard repertory. Music Review: City Opera Returns With Jonathan Miller?s ?Traviata? 2012-02-13T23:38:27Z

The next year, after three previous unsuccessful auditions, she was accepted into the Royal Opera at Covent Garden and made her debut at the First Lady in Mozart’s “Zauberflote.” Joan Sutherland, Opera Soprano, Dies 2010-10-11T16:29:00Z

It’s all part of a strong season for Washington National Opera — a season inevitably dominated by the long-awaited production of Wagner’s “Ring,” which arrives here in the spring. ‘Appomattox’: A new version of a new opera 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

“It didn’t seem like the Met was a possibility,” said Anthony Davis, whose “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” was heard at City Opera in 1986. A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

But competitors have emerged, including the Royal Opera House in London. More Opera Coming to a Movie Theater Near You 2010-07-13T15:45:00Z

This is Dean's first full-length opera, which was given its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House in March. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Opera to me seems almost to require that you paint in this much broader way. The new librettist of ‘The New Prince’ 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Just a few years ago she was utterly charming as the title character in Janacek’s “The Cunning Little Vixen” in a Juilliard Opera production. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

He became a successful freelancer, playing regularly with the New York City Opera and New York City Ballet orchestras, recording and making broadcasts. Harvey Phillips, a Titan of the Tuba, Dies at 80 2010-10-24T04:19:00Z

Issues of race pushed to the forefront in 2015, when the famed Metropolitan Opera in New York ditched “blackface” — makeup to significantly darken the skin of white singers playing black characters. Seattle Opera’s ‘Aida’ spurs discussion of ways black people are misrepresented — or not represented — in opera 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Orchestra’s Opera Gamble A contemporary surrealist at the ? New York Philharmonic Plans Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-23T22:39:00Z

In late 2019, the Paris Opera Ballet made international headlines by performing an excerpt from “Swan Lake” in the cold outside the Palais Garnier, to protest a previous attempt at a pension overhaul. For France’s Protesters, the Streets Are the Ultimate Stage 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

New York City Opera presents a free, hourlong adaptation of Verdi’s classic tale of Violetta’s downfall. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Her death, following a stroke in October, was confirmed in a statement by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she was long a mainstay, performing more than 200 times over two decades. Grace Bumbry, Barrier-Shattering Opera Diva, Is Dead at 86 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Credit...Actors from a variety of performance backgrounds get into costume at the Metropolitan Opera for the Triumphal Scene of “Aida.” What It’s Like to Perform at the Met With No Opera Experience 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Seattle Opera stages a double bill of two one-acts, Poulenc’s “The Human Voice” and Puccini’s “Suor Angelica,” both about women facing unendurable heartbreak. A&E highlights: a pretty good ‘Gatsby,’ music from Monsters and beers from Bend 2013-05-08T21:37:12Z

Directed by Adrian Marthaler, the broadcast featured the orchestra, chorus and soloists of the Zurich Opera House. 2010-02-06T03:26:00Z

The Royal Opera's Tristan und Isolde took both opera awards: best new production and outstanding achievement for the Swedish soprano Nina Stemme. The Mountaintop is surprise winner at Olivier awards 2010-03-21T22:00:00Z

The evening will include a revival of George Balanchine’s “Symphony in C,” with a score by Georges Bizet, first performed at the Paris Opera Ballet in 1947. ArtsBeat: A Salute to France and World Premieres for New York City Ballet Gala 2012-03-07T18:58:20Z

And the Grand Opera’s music director, Patrick Summers, who had led the premiere, conducted with a stylishness and assurance that asserted his belief in the work and made you believe in it too. Houston Grand Opera Holds to Its Promise of Excellence 2011-02-09T16:15:56Z

So when Gotham went under, she said, she immediately got on the phone with Opera Philadelphia to try to salvage the production. Charlie Parker Opera Will Go On 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Generally, Opera on Tap performances are one-night-only deals, and having a run was a really great experience to understand how to build buzz before and throughout a show’s run. Last Year’s Fringe Festival Successes Look Back 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

My girlfriend and I attended opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, featuring the world-class soprano Anna Netrebko. Social Q?s: Stand Up and Be Counted 2011-10-06T20:50:39Z

He also has experience as an actor, on film and on Broadway, where he played Mack the Knife in an ill-received and short-lived 1989 revival of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera.” In ‘Last Ship,’ Sting Tries to Not Steal the Spotlight 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

John Allison, the editor of Opera magazine, said in a telephone interview that the changes were “unquestionably damaging to opera in Britain.” Britain’s Major Opera Companies Suffer in Arts Spending Shake-Up 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

By the end of the year the Met orchestra was the only major ensemble without a deal to receive pandemic pay, according to the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians. The Met Opera’s Musicians, Unpaid Since April, Are Struggling 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Last fall New York City Opera hit an artistic peak with another Houston creation, “A Quiet Place” by Leonard Bernstein, albeit in a form much changed from that of its troubled birth in 1983. Houston Grand Opera Holds to Its Promise of Excellence 2011-02-09T16:15:56Z

“It’s also, I mean, this collection feels to me like an essential part of my personal history because I grew up with Seattle Opera.” Seattle Opera’s first librarian is a passionate millennial 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Opera's first performances of Mozart's "The Abduction From the Seraglio" in 21 years. L.A. Opera to present 'Macbeth,' 'Akhnaten' and Leonard Bernstein tribute in 2016-17 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Opera as an art form is dead if our best performers are not allowed, even encouraged, to perform its best works, regardless of skin color. ‘Porgy and Bess’ With a White Cast Stirs Controversy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Donald Cooper/Rex Features The Phantom of the Opera will become the first show to celebrate its 25th anniversary on Broadway in January. The Phantom of the Opera to celebrate 25 years on Broadway 2012-12-17T11:56:02Z

Opera in particular has been a poacher’s paradise. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

The creation of the Sydney Opera House was an arduous process, marked by setbacks and compromise. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

This was not the case on Saturday night for the absurdly overdue premiere of Lewis Spratlan’s “Life Is a Dream” here at the Santa Fe Opera. Music Review: Overdue Debut for Lewis Spratlan Opera in Santa Fe 2010-07-25T23:29:00Z

Free full-scale performances by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City’s parks increasingly look like a thing of the past. ArtsBeat: Met Opera Unveils Summer Season 2012-04-23T20:17:23Z

The latest, a collaboration between the European Opera Centre and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, uses a new critical edition that represents Mendelssohn's final thoughts, though it doesn't solve its problems of narrative control. Die Hochzeit des?Camacho ? review 2011-04-13T18:01:01Z

She will turn her focus to the Washington National Opera, where she has been artistic director since 2012. She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

The Washington National Opera will present the four operas of the “Ring” cycle — “The Rhinegold,” “The Valkyrie,” “Siegfried” and “Twilight of the Gods” — three times between April 30 and May 22. Looking for your next binge-watching marathon? Try 17 hours of opera. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The English National Opera is facing a major cut to its funding as part of a shake-up of how arts funding is distributed. ENO funding cut in arts shake-up 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Given in a chamber version arranged by Preben Antonsen, it is performed by the members of the American Modern Opera Company, a loose collective of like-minded collaborators, as well as other guests. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Clark is the press director at the Metropolitan Opera. Bridge: Bridge — Edgar Kaplan Winter Regional in Manhattan 2013-01-09T22:56:58Z

He will repeat “La Traviata” for his Metropolitan Opera debut in January. A Busy Baritone Gets Ready for a New ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

His mother was a ballet dancer, and his father was a songwriter and producer; as a child, Bangalter took piano lessons from a member of the music staff of the Paris Opera. Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

Under its general manager and artistic director, George Steel, City Opera has done a good job of building interest in this adventurous presentation. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z

Founded in 1661 by Louis XIV, the Paris Opera Ballet is the oldest and one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world. Top dance job for Black Swan man 2013-01-24T15:30:49Z

“It’s clearly in a language that’s not particularly current these days,” Mr. Spratlan acknowledged, but added, “Opera’s got to be good drama, and I think the drama’s intact in this piece.” Santa Fe Opera to Stage Lewis Spratlan?s ?Life Is a Dream? 2010-04-11T21:56:00Z

Among all the versions I've seen over the years, I cannot recall a "Magic Flute" that came close to Seattle Opera's new production in one fascinating respect. 'The Magic Flute': Beautiful fun at Seattle Opera 2011-05-09T20:32:05Z

The demise of City Opera in September after a 70-year run was clearly on his mind. Critic’s Notebook: Gerard Mortier, in Rare Interview, Weighs His Recent Past 2014-02-02T21:48:51Z

Marc Stern, longtime board chairman of Los Angeles Opera, won in 2010. Long Beach Opera leader wins national award for opera trustees 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Schultz has gone on to sing with Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera and other companies. Singer Accuses David Daniels, Leading Opera Star, of Rape 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

He also wrote and narrated two sets of CDs for the Metropolitan Opera Guild: “Talking About ‘The Ring,’” about Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung,” and “Talking About ‘La Traviata.’” Peter Allen, a Voice on the Radio for the Met Opera, Dies at 96 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Johnson, who wrote her own libretto and calls her work "A VHS Opera in Three Fragments," was about not knowing. Exploratory 'First Take' presents six operas in progress 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Afterward, he was principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z

As the dust settles, so to speak, the onstage screens show the bombed-out Vienna State Opera in the aftermath of the war. Review: An ‘Orlando’ Opera Is a Milestone, but No More, in Vienna 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

To celebrate the 120th anniversary of Mei’s birth, the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing, a Peking Opera troupe, is following the maestro’s globe-hopping ways. Jingju Theater at the Kennedy Center

In a rising tide of protest, opera-world stars are denouncing New York City Opera’s planned move from Lincoln Center and calling into question the company’s stewardship. Stars Sign Letter Protesting City Opera?s Move 2011-07-07T21:45:25Z

His music dominated the presentation by Morningside Opera, a young company formed by Columbia University graduate students in 2009, with a few choice arias by Weldon and Purcell inserted for variety and contrast. Music Review: ?The Judgment of Paris? by Morningside Opera - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z

Opening on 12 April at English National Opera is Sunken Garden, a new work by the splendid Dutch composer Michel van der Aa and novelist David Mitchell. With George Benjamin's Written on Skin, British opera takes a bold step into the future 2013-03-11T15:52:00Z

Today, it’s the home of the Pittsburgh Public Market, Pittsburgh Opera and the modern-dance Attack Theatre. These Are America's Most Charming Cities 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Thomas Adès’ spellbinding “Exterminating Angel,” after the mysterious Luis Buñuel film, is being staged by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. L.A. Opera lets Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' sing 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Grand Performances was experimenting in 2010 when it helped Los Angeles Opera stage its very first outdoor screening. Free admission for all: With NEA help, Grand Performances makes it happen 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

The work, also sponsored by the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, the Seattle Opera and the Ópera de Colombia, is often called the first Spanish-language opera commissioned by American companies. Daniel Cat?n, Composer of Operas in Spanish, Dies at 62 2011-04-12T02:28:20Z

But bringing the work to Cuba — where it will be performed by the inventive troupe Opera de la Calle — required adjustments. A Yiddish-Cuban Opera to Have Its Premiere in Havana in March 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Wearing quite a different hat, Mr. Moores has played Father Christmas to Opera Rara, a British label whose name is its mission statement. Peter Moores and His Campaign for Opera in English 2010-08-22T01:53:00Z

Another great memory from our time in Saigon was seeing a show that our guide suggested at the Saigon Opera House. Decades later, good morning, Vietnam 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Saturdays at 8 p.m., with additional performances at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, 212-362-6000, abt.org, metopera.org. Dance Listings for May 6-12 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

There are some 10,000 words in the libretto of Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” which the Metropolitan Opera is presenting in a new production starting on Feb. 26. Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

Ms. Linville, a retired head milliner at the Metropolitan Opera, was so pleased with the result that she considered using the bags to make a hat as well. FreshDirect, but Make It Fashion 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Opera as an art form about investigation might seem a radical idea in a modern world where so much about contemporary arts and entertainment is defined by conventional narrative. Exploratory 'First Take' presents six operas in progress 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

I saw Cave and the Bad Seeds last week at the Sydney Opera House, where they were accompanied by a symphony orchestra and a children's choir. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cry murder Adelaide 2013-03-04T09:53:05Z

It is the rare Metropolitan Opera singer who must be told the following: Elena Doria, Beloved and ‘Strict as Hell’ Director of Met Children’s Chorus, Dies at 90 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Opera is still operating on a reduced main-stage season of six productions, down from as many as eight several seasons ago. Los Angeles Opera's 30th season to begin with 'Gianni Schicchi' 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Seattle Opera closes its season — also general director Speigh Jenkins’ last one with the company — with a production of the Jacques Offenbach tale about a writer and the unobtainable women in his life. Week Ahead: Maritime Festival, Cinco de Mayo, Cassandra Wilson 2014-04-30T21:25:24Z

The Metropolitan Opera has been the victim of a cyberattack that has kept its website and box office out of commission for more than 30 hours, the company’s general manager said on Wednesday. Cyberattack Takes Down the Met Opera’s Website and Box Office 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

The producers of "Love Never Dies" announced Tuesday that the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera" will now open in New York in spring 2011 instead of this November. B'way bow of 'Love Never Dies' delayed until 2011 2010-04-06T22:04:00Z

Five years later, at the Paris Opera House, she danced the title role in “Giselle,” with Serge Lifar as a partner. Marina Semyonova of Bolshoi Ballet Dies at 102 2010-06-10T04:52:00Z

With expanded opportunities, she extended her range to full-length 19th-Russian classics, including “The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker,” then absent from the Paris Opera repertoire. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

In 1976, for the Chicago Opera Theater, he directed “The Mother of Us All,” the Virgil Thomson opera for which Ms. Stein wrote the libretto. Frank Galati, Mainstay of Chicago Theater, Dies at 79 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Then Mr. Ratmansky presents a composite trio of works to separate compositions by Shostakovich for American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House on May 31. Three Stars of World Dance Traditions Converge on New York 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z

The “I Love New York” campaign was a huge hit, and we all know what happened next: “Les Misérables,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and — cue the furry jazz hands — “Cats.” ‘Razzle Dazzle’ review: Michael Riedel pulls back the curtain on for Broadway 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

The mood was festive, the audience large and enthusiastic, for the gala premiere on New Year’s Eve of a rare new production of Umberto Giordano’s lovably preposterous potboiler “Fedora” at the Metropolitan Opera. Review: The Met Opera Found an Audience for ‘Fedora.’ For Now. 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

A five member committee headed by Carol Henry, Los Angeles Opera's second-ranking board officer after Stern, went through the nominations and picked the honorees. Long Beach Opera leader wins national award for opera trustees 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

So it was with some trepidation that I traveled to the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut to check out its take on Charles Walters’s “Summer Stock,” from 1950. Review: This ‘Summer Stock’ Cast Is Having a Blast 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

The New York City Opera’s efforts seem doomed anyway, as the opera’s board voted Thursday to file for bankruptcy next week after the show’s run ends. Buxom and Doomed: The Odd Marriage of Opera and Anna Nicole 2013-09-27T14:09:14Z

The situation is now complicated by the fact that City Opera is about to negotiate new contracts with important unions. New York City Opera Plans to Leave Lincoln Center 2011-05-21T00:04:16Z

There, Muslim separatists threatened attacks and intimidated the Kashmiri musicians who were going to perform with the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, another ensemble long associated with Mr. Mehta. Critic’s Notebook: Zubin Mehta, of the Israel Philharmonic, on That Nation’s Affairs 2014-03-19T22:01:40Z

It may have been the most ostentatious expression of the New York avant-garde until the sensation of “Einstein on the Beach” at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976. A Case for the Greatness of Florine Stettheimer 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The near-collapse here took most people by surprise; unlike, say, at City Opera, there was no constant drumbeat that this company was in trouble. San Diego Opera Downsizes to Survive 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z