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I would have liked to have entered the Little Theatre completely ignorant of the content of the play. There was such a ...
The highly anticipated new season of the Netflix series has it all — from Bruce Springsteen to piano renditions of the ...
In its 68th season, Santa Fe Opera remains the premier summer opera festival in the United States. Especially popular with the Dallas-Fort Worth opera crowd, its annual schedule of five productions ...
Damiano Michieletto’s production of Janáček’s opera breaks a key tenet of high-concept opera: where it should reveal, it obfuscates.
These days, the story of Figaro, a valet, and his wife-to-be, Susanna, a maid and their escapades in the household of Count ...
FEW operas manage to combine musical genius with sharp wit and moral force, but this highly engaging revival of The Marriage of Figaro succeeds with an inspired cast and a heart-lifting focus on the ...
Here are five great operas with basic storylines and immortal music.
Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” a tragedy that shocked some of its first audiences in the 1850s, has some of the most memorable arias and ensembles in opera.
An opera review by Murray Dahm This is a delightful production, full of wit, insight and wonderful singing, and with flashes of the darker side of this most famous of operatic comedies. Wolfgang ...
The Shawshank Redemption stands as one of the classic movies in cinematic history. This prison drama has captured the hearts ...
David McVicar’s 2015 production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro has become a jewel in Opera Australia’s repertoire.
The Buxton International Festival this year was lavish in its smaller-scale productions in addition to Ambroise Thomas’s ...