A soft, silent snow falls from the heavens as the curtain rises on Act 2 of "Saint Francois d'Assise" at the War Memorial Opera House. It is, like so many things in Olivier Messiaen's 1983 masterwork ...

When Opera Philadelphia announced a new multiauthored work titled Complications in Sue, one was right to ask, “What, exactly, is it?” The piece was written in less than a year and is still in progress ...

In college, I enrolled in an opera program where I was one of three women of color in the entire undergraduate vocal department. So as I sat in the audience awaiting the final preview run of “Mother ...

Wild fantasies take hold in Offenbach’s compellingly strange opera; Lawrence Power is more than a match for Magnus Lindberg’s new Viola Concerto; and to the underworld with the Berlin Phil One of his ...

Variety is the spice of life in the next production of NAU Opera, Program of Short Operas, featuring four short one-act "mini-operas" by Gian-Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, Paul Hindemith and Francis ...

We are living through days of unprecedented challenges - but this seems to be an environment in which Opera Atelier thrives. The important new health directives regarding COVID-19 have necessitated ...

Opera Atelier announces the launch of its 35th Anniversary with a groundbreaking new creation, Something Rich & Strange, based on the famous quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest and featuring some of ...