Ballet companies have The Nutcracker – the Christmas present that keeps on giving – but what does opera offer by way of festive treats? Sure, there’s Puccini’s snow-sprinkled Bohème ...

Snow falls continually from the sky; snowflakes flutter down, illuminated by moonlight and shrouded in smoke billowing from chimneys. Yet it would be a mistake to think that 19th-century Paris was ...

Stone's focus is the opera's moral greyness thrust front and centre for us to examine from all sides. The box set has become director Simon Stone's visual trademark; it's like a snow globe ...

Colourful costumes punctuate the gloom and more characters from popular Grimm tales (Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, Cinderella ...

The Royal Opera ©2024 Tristram Kenton I was disappointed that Snow White’s costume was entirely ... Moths and beetles climb the walls of the opera house proscenium. The Witch’s house, usually ...

Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times LONDON — Jakub Hrusa, a rising Czech conductor, on Tuesday was named the music director of the Royal Opera House in London, one of the highest-profile ...

After successful four-show run at Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio in London ... artist with solo and group exhibitions around the globe. He also has several directorial credits.

By Rebecca Schmid For the next music director of the Royal Opera House, Jakub Hrusa, one main thing defines the theater’s activities: “Quality.” “It’s the quality of human relationships ...