Joanna Berman, dressed in black and bathed in light, stood center stage and smiled at the cheering crowd Tuesday night after the world premiere of Yuri Possokhov's "Damned" in the War Memorial Opera ...

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Hell hath no fury like a sorceress scorned. This centuries-old tale burns with unrelenting emotional fire, and in Cherubini’s hands, it demands to be retold. Audiences witness the tragedy of Medea, a ...

Scorned and seething since 431 B.C.E., Medea has raged across the centuries as an empathetic emblem of the human consequence of paternalistic betrayal — by a man for whom a Golden Fleece was just not ...

Of all the subjects for a Christmas show, choreographer Ben Duke must have picked the most unlikely. Ruination is his retelling of Medea: not just Greek tragedy, but a story where a mother kills her ...

The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover. Five year later she’s ...

The Bolshoi Ballet will make a rare visit to the Bay Area for six performances of "Swan Lake," and the Stuttgart Ballet will bring choreographer John Cranko's version of "Romeo and Juliet" as part of ...

With 2011’s Castor and Pollux English National Opera nudged a door ajar that has been closed on British stages for centuries. The baroque revival of the past few decades has been vigorous and ...

The most powerful dance of the Smuin Ballet’s Fall/Winter program, performed last week and weekend at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, was stuck in the middle of three works. The ...

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