This week’s list of top things to do includes Fringe Festival, Memorial Day events, author events and a “Top Gun” 40th ...

Mrs T, a new opera about Margaret Thatcher reveals the human side of a formidable prime minister, writes Charlotte Smith ...

It was good to be back at the Washington National Opera for their thrilling performance of West Side Story after a year of ...

Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day ...

I caught up with Heartbeat Opera’s reinvention of Samuel Barber’s 1958 opera, VANESSA, to Giancarlo Menotti’s libretto, a few ...

Robert Ogden is the artistic director of the Northern Aldborough Festival. Until recently, he ran his family’s jewellery ...

The New York company offers a stark, taxing adaptation of the composer’s 1958 work, which centers on a woman waiting for her ...

With a libretto by Nilo Cruz, the work had its world premiere at the San Diego Opera in 2022—later moving to San Francisco and Chicago’s Lyric Opera—but the Met offers an entirely new production by ...

A gingerbread house, a wicked witch and a forest full of enchantment will soon arrive at Vashon Center for the Arts, as ...

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Chorus was joined by the DePaul University Concert Choir from Chicago, and pianist Jon Kimura ...

Tall and self-possessed, with an air of wit and sophistication, she was superb in works by Mozart and Strauss, and was also a wide-ranging recitalist.

The coloratura soprano Rainelle Krause, who died in March, was one of the most sought after performers of Queen of the Night ...