A little minuet in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, a hip-swinging processional in Verdi’s Aida, a ballroom waltz in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin — until fairly recently, that, generally speaking, was ...

Can you imagine the end of humanity—and then a billion years after that? No need to; the ethereal composer-vocalist Gelsey Bell already has. Bell’s 2023 opera is at once apocalyptic, transcendent and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history. Manon Fleur Antonio and ...

Even in the best of times, opera and dance are endangered art forms. Their audiences are loyal but small, and not necessarily growing. Yet they persevere because there will always be a core ...