A soft, silent snow falls from the heavens as the curtain rises on Act 2 of "Saint Francois d'Assise" at the War Memorial Opera House. It is, like so many things in Olivier Messiaen's 1983 masterwork ...

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Welsh National Opera rehearse Death in Venice with aerialist Antony César (top) as Tadzio and Mark Le Brocq (centre) as Aschenbach Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Britten’s atmospheric, strange ...

In college, I enrolled in an opera program where I was one of three women of color in the entire undergraduate vocal department. So as I sat in the audience awaiting the final preview run of “Mother ...

Opera Atelier announces the new livestream date of the highly anticipated world premiere of Something Rich & Strange, based on the famous quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest and featuring some of ...

We are living through days of unprecedented challenges - but this seems to be an environment in which Opera Atelier thrives. The important new health directives regarding COVID-19 have necessitated ...

BAYREUTH, Germany - For serious music lovers, certain places have the aura of shrines. For pop music fans of a certain age, it's Woodstock. For me, walking into the Vienna Musikverein was deeply ...

Variety is the spice of life in the next production of NAU Opera, Program of Short Operas, featuring four short one-act "mini-operas" by Gian-Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, Paul Hindemith and Francis ...