Mae West famously asked, 'Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?' Well, at the beginning of the ...

Others have done similar things: Samson – based on Milton’s work in what he considered to be the style of Greek drama – is a text that cries out to be staged, and has been. Messiah, too, albeit that ...

Benvenuti a Napoli cries the huge corny poster of the blue bay and ominous Vesuvius that looms over Neil Irish’s sets for Così fan tutte. However, we’re no longer in the Enlightenment city of cynical ...

Opera is perceived as the most traditional of the performing arts—its repertory ossified into a canon of 19th-century warhorses, its performance style determined by the constraints of the proscenium ...

Read our review of La Traviata at Garsington Opera, Wormsley: beautifully conceived and sung take on the Verdi favourite, ...

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis makes a practice of reviving underperformed contemporary operas. This season’s example is Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002), a chamber piece that examines the ...

AMHERST — Opera channels our clearest emotions: those so innate that they splash out in naive singsong, and those so deep that, when released, they can only bear to be sung. “The Onion,” with a ...

Beth Taylor's richly shaded title role and Sinéad O'Neill's inventive Whistler-inflected staging make this a Longborough ...

I still remember how my heart would pound with excitement each week as the latest episode of “Game of Thrones” began unfolding on my TV screen. I had the same feeling Friday night at the Dr. Phillips ...

"The Barber of Seville," San Francisco Opera''s charming opener of the summer season, is a Rossini gem about power plays, ...

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