“He really admired Napoleon [Bonaparte],” Tara Faircloth, the stage director for the Utah Opera ’s upcoming production of ...

Sharlene Wells (Oracle) walked out on stage and opened the scene, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. This is the world premiere ...

4 Video: Bellini’s I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera Not really: Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, who’s shown herself indispensable in roles from Tchaikovsky’s QUEEN OF SPADES to Strauss’s ARIADNE ...

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Memorable performances included a pair of Strauss operas, a suave villain, a star soprano in “Fidelio” and a new conductor in “Le Nozze di Figaro.” Credit...Metropolitan Opera ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” a timeless monument to love, life, and liberty, will be shown March 15 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish as part of The Met: Live in HD program. Sung in German with ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The Met, a magnet for star singers, flexed its muscles to stack the cast of Beethoven’s only opera, with Lise Davidsen in the title role ...