"OPERA and ballet[institutions] are sometimes considered museums where the same repertoire works get 'dusted off' over andover, and where new, modern theatre works have a hard time breaking ...

The opening of the San Francisco Opera is considered this city's best-dressed evening, our version of the Academy Awards. This is when the big ball skirts gently sweep the marble floors and when women ...

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In the case of Robert Ward’s operatic adaptation in English of the stage play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, the answer is: very well. Its premiere in 1961 deservedly garnered a Pulitzer Prize for ...

Graeme Murphy’s swirlingly beautiful 1990 production of Puccini’s last opera, Turandot, puts into the work the mythic, remote and dreamlike element that partly eluded Puccini, and which, some have ...

Mortals are caught up amidst struggles between capricious gods in Richard Wagner’s iconic dramatic opera The Valkyrie, from his legendary “Ring” cycle. Virginia Opera boldly opens its 2022-2023 season ...

There will always be diehard canary fanciers who insist that opera is only about The Voice, and nothing else. But the gentlemen of the Florentine Camerata, who created the art form just over 400 years ...