Evan Rogister News Today

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with Terence Blanchard’s jazz-inflected drama "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," in a performance from earlier this month.

Robert Spano was hired Tuesday to become music director of the Washington National Opera starting with the 2025-26 season.

The Washington National Opera's 'Romeo and Juliet' is the epitome of impending doom delivered with entertainment and style.

Running Oct. 7 through Dec. 31, Shakespeare Everywhere Festival promises a deeper look at the playwright’s remaining relevance.

I wrote some programme notes for the marvellous new production of Dialogues des Carmélites at Glyndebourne, so I got to go to the first night. A first night there is a cross between a garden party at Buckingham Palace and Wimbledon

Are you supposed to laugh at the end of Don Giovanni? Audiences often do, and they did at the end of Mariame Clément’s new production at Glyndebourne. It’s usually the bit where Donna Anna’s fiancé Don Ottavio suggests that they get married sharpish, and she immediately asks him for a year’s delay. Readers of Middlemarch

Direction and music are as one in Deborah Warner’s gripping new Royal Opera production, while a fine young cast redeems thoughtful if low-key Mozart

TULLY POTTER: Booked for the last four performances of LElisir dAmore, in the key role of Nemorino, Matteo Desole ended up having to sing all 14 - and scored a triumph on the first night.

Everything was set for a glorious start to Britains finest annual opera festival in Sussex: the sun was shining, the lawn was immaculate and ready for the operatic hordes to descend for their picnics during the traditional long interval and a complimentary glass of Nyetimber English champagne awaited each of us.

A pair of nuanced and contemporary reimaginings