Anna Netrebko as Princess Turandot at the Royal Opera House - Alastair Muir Anna Netrebko is back, briefly. The star soprano, whose links to Russia have made her a controversial booking in some ...

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

Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars.

La Scala: The Force Of Destiny will premiere on March 27 at the Quad Cinema in New York and will get its West Coast premiere ...

Bennett Tucker on Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” at the Haifa Auditorium.

• Elsewhere, the National Youth Orchestra are at the Barbican Jan 4 with the programme of Ravel, Debussy and Anna Clyne (her ...

The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during ...

I was playing piano at a university when two opera singers walked by — and what happened next turned a quiet moment into a powerful performance. Their voices filled the space and caught everyone’s ...

The Royal Opera House’s Turandot has now been running so long it feels less like a revival and more like a listed structure. You don’t attend it so much as pass through it, like a familiar corridor or ...

Stuart notes that from the moment Carly sneaked into Steinmauer in a brunette wig and classes, posing as Valentin’s attorney, he saw both dramatic and comedic potential in the mix of the two ...

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