Who likes listening to old stories sung in foreign languages? Yes, I’m talking about opera. If you’re most people, the answer is probably, “Not me.” For the first three centuries of its existence, ...

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Opera Naples has lined up some certified crowd-pleasers for its 2026-27 season, including two of the world’s most popular operas. The opera company announced its expanded, upcoming season Sept. 4 with ...

The 2025 mainstage attraction is a new production of one of the most popular operas of all time: Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece La Traviata. BOF will bring it to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Alcina” is long, hard to sing — and irresistible to opera houses and singers alike. By David Belcher As nearly 300-year-old operas go, “Alcina” feels ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by If opera at its best aspires to a different world, then we need to cultivate an anti-elite approach to how it is created and performed. By Yuval ...

Glyndebourne’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos paints a vivid picture of the tortured process of creating an opera - Tristram Kenton The country-house opera season, a relatively recent phenomenon in ...