A gift from a board member recently paid for the company to rebuild sets for Franco Zeffirelli’s deathless 1981 production…
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R.B. Schlather’s new staging of this opera, with the excellent musicians of Ruckus, is the first of several Handel productions…
A new report found that women are dramatically underrepresented when it comes to conducting, directing and designing operas at leading…
Houston Grand Opera, known for innovation, unveils Jake Heggie’s “Intelligence,” directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and featuring Urban Bush…
The station, which had called the Met’s newer operas unsuitable because of their “difficult music” and “adult themes and harsh…
On a recent summer morning in New York, three sopranos, a director and a small crew gathered for a rehearsal…
With Parterre Box, he brought together high culture, punk aesthetics and gleeful camp in an irreverent source for news, criticism…
The organization, founded in 1935 to support the opera house, will lay off 20 employees and stop publishing Opera News…
The opening productions of the Avignon and Aix-en-Provence Festivals brought tales of the down-and-out to well-heeled spectators. It got awkward.
As the 2022-23 season ends, the country’s largest performing arts institution looks ahead to a future of fewer titles.