Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

Opera-Lytes just finished their run of RUDDIGORE, OR THE WITCHES CURSE, an operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan, and you can read my review below. Of course, the very British G&S operettas are sung in the ...

At Opera Theater of St. Louis here recently, this aria came across with stunning immediacy, because Rigoletto (baritone Roland Wood) sang the words with stinging crispness and brooding power in an ...

In continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in ...

Continuing a tradition inaugurated in 2006, the Met will offer a holiday presentation this December and January: an English-language performance of an opera, with special weekday matinees and discount ...

The anarchy and invention of Simon McBurney’s Mozart production triumphs as ENO plays on; Puccini gets a rough ride at English Touring Opera. Plus, the pros and cons of Radio 3’s new schedule A ...