Composer Laura Kaminsky's intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old ...
In this opera, composed by Jeanine Tesori with a libretto by Tazewell Thompson, you never see the event at the heart of the ...
A five-year-old opera, “Blue,” tackles this tragedy head-on with a simple yet weighty story about a Black couple in Harlem ...
The British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso became a global name by chance. In 2021, the tenor playing the role of ...
That is the idea behind English National Opera’s new production at the London Coliseum of Donizetti’s romantic comedy The Elixir of Love, directed by Harry Fehr. During the overture we watch a TV ...
Opera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet's "Carmen," which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday. While there have been a Nazi-era Carmen, a 20th-century Brooklyn "Carmen" ...
Taiwan opera is revered across the Asian island. One of its most beloved traits is its gender-bending character archetypes, ...
Lucy Shelton, a soprano known for her work in the contemporary repertoire, has had a role tailor-made for her in “Lucidity,” ...
Director Francesca Zambello’s durable production thrives on the strength of lead singers Eve-Maud Hubeaux and Jonathan ...
Director Brenna Corner brings a new production of Verdi’s classic, starring soprano Ewa Płonka and baritone Étienne Dupuis.
But planetarium-goers in San Francisco can see an opera, “Everest: Opera in the Planetarium,” as San Francisco’s Opera ...