The retelling of the "Sleeping Beauty" legend that hasn’t quite found its legs but still has a lot for audiences to ...

What can you do with a 90-year-old piece about a man madly in love, slowly slipping into a dream he has no desire to wake up ...

Some evenings remind you why opera exists. LUCREZIA BORGIA at Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège did exactly that, in a space that ...

“Treemonisha” took more than a century to make its Florida debut — and it was so very worth the wait. Scott Joplin’s 1911 opera is being given a production as exquisite as it is exuberant by Opera ...

One question that arises from Minnesota Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”: how did such an inane story become so embedded in the consciousness of Western culture?

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — He comes here every day, to gather wood. Axe in hand, the woodcutter (baritone Geoffrey Schmelzer) sang as much when he introduced “In A Grove” with see-sawing modulation, ...

Calgary Opera’s final offering of the main season is a fun-filled, exuberantly joyous production of Gioachino Rossini’s The ...

NORTHAMPTON — As I walked and whistled out of the Academy of Music on Nov. 9, Able Seaman Paul Peelle — still made up for the stage and dressed in stripes of white and Royal Navy blue — reminded me of ...

The audience went wild when the she took her final bow Saturday at the Barre Opera House. The crowd was on its feet clapping, yelling and whistling. It was even raucous — and it was opera. Italian ...

It’s a let-down when a new production of an opera that spends two acts feeling dazzlingly invigorating and clever collapses in a careless mess in the third. My guess is that a key scene for the ...