Opera flourishes: in spite of all the financial cutbacks, the UK’s opera companies are managing to create new work and ...

Opera houses are among the most impressive architectural achievements in American culture. By combining excellent acoustics ...

Opera is an art form that favors extravagant appetites. For every dining-obsessed Don Giovanni, Falstaff or Alfredo, there’s ...

In what looks certain to be San Francisco Opera's most eye-popping and resplendent production of the season, Huang Ruo and ...

San Francisco Opera, in highest adventure mode, presents "The Monkey King," a dashing world premiere that brings to the stage ...

On January 2, 1958, a minor official at the Rome Opera House bore the thankless task of announcing bad news to the audience: Maria Callas had left the building. The legendary soprano, stricken by ...

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something really novel in the genre. “Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped ...

Jolie stars as world-famous opera star Maria Callas in director Pablo Larrain's biopic, which was acquired by Netflix and makes its world premiere at Venice: "This movie wouldn't exist without ...

Carmen — and Carmen — blew into town in late September, with all her seductive cunning and mellifluous melodic charms. The tragic anti-heroine of the ever-popular opera by Georges Bizet, boldly ...