"The Marriage of Figaro," arguably Mozart's greatest comic opera, if not one of the best of all time, returns to War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco this weekend as a revival of the ...
The singing was fine, but the lack of costumes misses a central point ...
Amid the deafening noise of the elections, this stirring production of Bizet’s classic by LA Opera reminds us that intimate ...
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A work heralded as a masterwork by one Beethoven, “Medea” would then disappear into oblivion until the mid-1900s when another notable figure, Greek-American soprano Maria Callas, made it one of her ...
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The exceedingly American opera about a woman who becomes an outcast features a stunning performance by soprano Sylvia D'Eramo.
A melodramatic story and sometimes awkward stage direction took a little of the shine off San Diego Opera’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterwork “Rigoletto” this past weekend, but the singing and ...
Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s “Lincoln in the Bardo” at the Met Opera is the latest, and perhaps darkest, in a long series ...
Where does power in culture actually live in 2026? The old arrangement, whereby an elite few publishers, record executives, ...
Verdi’s score for Rigoletto is a masterpiece. I just wish knowing where Francesco Maria Piave’s libretto was headed didn’t ...
Eastern Arizona College will welcome Metropolitan Opera bass-baritone Samuel Weiser to campus Monday, Oct. 26, for a free public recital featuring selections from some of classical music’s best-known ...