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BUCKINGHAM PALACE December 11th The King and Queen this afternoon received members of the Military Wives Choirs. His Majesty afterwards spoke to The President of Ireland via telephone. Later the [...]

Byline: Zachary Woolfe 'Die Frau Ohne Schatten,' a dense ode to fertility, may not sound appealing at first. But in this performance, the fairy tale comes movingly to life. It's [...]

'Die Frau Ohne Schatten,' a dense ode to fertility, may not sound appealing at first. But in this performance, the fairy tale comes movingly to life. It's not easy to […]

“Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” a dense ode to fertility, may not sound appealing at first. But in this performance, the fairy tale comes movingly to life. It’s not easy to [...]

Byline: Fiona Maddocks Star Rating: 4 stars Brawn triumphs over poetry or social status in Maurice Ravel's L'heure espagnole, in which three lovers court the sexy wife of a clockmaker [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kenyon CHIEF OPERA CRITIC It has been a busy Puccini year, with tomorrow marking the centenary of his death. Rather than using this as a reason for innovation [...]

Byline: Zachary Woolfe The powerhouse soprano, already a company stalwart at 37, still seems to be figuring out a character whose moods change on a dime. Aficionados have sometimes criticized [...]

Byline: Michael Andor Brodeur Not to deal in unsolicited prophecies, but if you go see the Washington National Opera production of 'Macbeth,' you'll love it. Giuseppe Verdi's 1847 adaptation of [...]

Chris van Tuinen, the artistic director of West Australian Opera (WAO), is excited about the company's 2025 program, and justifiably so. Chris van Tuinen, WAO Artistic Director Not only will [...]

The powerhouse soprano, already a company stalwart at 37, still seems to be figuring out a character whose moods change on a dime. Aficionados have sometimes criticized the Metropolitan Opera [...]

The powerhouse soprano, already a company stalwart at 37, still seems to be figuring out a character whose moods change on a dime. Aficionados have sometimes criticized the Metropolitan Opera [...]

Byline: Flora Willson Star Rating: 4 stars A huge eyeball in the wall of a classroom suddenly starts to swivel. A top-hatted man on stilts lurches into a bar and [...]

Byline: Martin Kettle Star Rating: 3 stars J onathan Miller 's mafioso Rigoletto has been running at the Coliseum for almost as long as Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap up at [...]

The energy in Verdi's classic must come from the singing, but the cast of this revival fails to convey the work's passion. Verdi's ''Il Trovatore'' begins with a group of [...]

At the Baryshnikov Arts Center, an adaptation of Smith's poem-memoir ''Woolgathering'' features Smith reciting, others dancing and a surprise guest. ''Woolgathering'' is a slim collection of prose poems that Patti [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kenyon Born in Lowestoft, living in Aldeburgh, the composer Benjamin Britten was a child of Suffolk and remained forever rooted in the county. Yet he always felt he [...]

Byline: Fiona Maddocks Easy to forget that the American dream -- the phrase dates from 1931 -- was originally a quest for liberty and equality, not cars, washing machines and [...]

Byline: Michael Andor Brodeur Right around the halfway mark of âAinadamarâ - Osvaldo Golijov's 2003 âopera in three imagesâ - the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca (sung as a trouser [...]

Osvaldo Golijov's opera about Federico Garcȡa Lorca makes its Met debut in a dance-heavy production, directed by the choreographer Deborah Colker. Rippling scales of Spanish guitar, the howls of a [...]

Byline: JENNA SIMEONOV; Special to The Globe and Mail Nabucco CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY Written by Giuseppe Verdi Directed by Katherine M. Carter Conducted by Paolo Carignani The Canadian Opera Company [...]

Despite some questionable staging choices, the opera that made Giuseppe Verdi a star offers a special, rare kind of performance that’s begging to be heard live, * Title: Nabucco * Written by: Giuseppe Verdi * Director: Katherine M. Carter * Conductor: Paolo Carignani * Company: Canadian Opera Company * Venue: Four Seasons Centre for the Performing [...]

Byline: Michael Andor Brodeur If you don't know the lore behind the nearly dashed 1937 premiere of 'The Cradle Will Rock' -- Marc Blitzstein's pro-union operatic romp, currently enjoying an [...]

''Grounded,'' the new work that opened the season, has been joined by revivals of three Puccini, Verdi and Offenbach classics. The Metropolitan Opera's season began not with a bang or [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kenyon, Chief Opera Critic Is the continuing appeal of Gilbert and Sullivan's Victorian operas due more to Gilbert's librettos or to Sullivan's music? Back in 1907, the music [...]

NEW YORK -- The following information was released by the Metropolitan Opera: Soprano Elza van den Heever makes her Met role debut as the Empress in Strauss's rarely performed Die [...]

NEW YORK -- The following information was released by the Metropolitan Opera: Met debuts include tenor Duke Kim as Tamino and soprano Aigul Khismatullina as the Queen of the Night [...]

NEW YORK -- The following information was released by the Metropolitan Opera: Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen, mezzo-sopranos Jamie Barton and Oleysa Petrova, tenor Michael Fabiano, baritone Igor Golovatenko, and bass-baritone Ryan [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kenyon, Chief Opera Critic Born in Lowestoft, living in Aldeburgh, the composer Benjamin Britten was a child of Suffolk and remained forever rooted in the county. Yet he [...]