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In the light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, English Touring Opera's enjoyable staging of Tamerlano has a bracing topicality

But when you work as an opera director, youve directed operas, most recently at the met and so on, thats a very different kind of discipline for you, isnt it? because youre already working with a known body of work? for every opera there has to be a theme, opera im interested in — the instability of objects of desire in lulu, the premonition of the first world war in wozzeck, the terror of hierarchy in the nose. these are larger things... but the primary activity of making the opera are the mo...

When Wang Liping was writing the soundtrack for the TV series Dream of the Red Chamber 35 years ago, it took him more than a year to decide on the theme song.

Little Theatre of Winston-Salem will present “Guys and Dolls” at Hanesbrands Theatre, 209 N. Spruce St. in Winston-Salem.

The 1934 opera, revived this season at the Metropolitan Opera, stoked the ire of the Soviet state, or so the story goes. But archives tell a more interesting tale.

An opera about the grunge singer's final day is striking, hypnotic at times, but how do you care about a man who is not really there?

Cecilia Violetta López of Rupert; was named one of Idaho's Top 10 Influential Women and one of Opera's 25 rising stars by Opera news.

A planned semiconductor factory near Syracuse has the potential to bring prosperity back to the region.

Operas tell stories in a special yet not always accessible way. They also often come off as elitist. Has opera had its day? An exhibition looks into the art form's constant reinvention.

The opera is presented in collaboration with the Hungarian State Opera