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Director Robert Carsen has banished all exoticism in his radical, stimulating staging of this 1871 masterpiece for the Royal Opera

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The Dresden Opera Ball, to be held at Dubai Opera, will bring together world-famous international artists to share their cultural heritage with the diverse..

“Institutional structures around live performance have done a lot of harm in keeping people out.”

The Metropolitan Opera is just one of the stops in a busy itinerary for Charles Castronovo, a New York-born singer who performs around the world.

“Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” by Dmitri Shostakovich, a tale of love and betrayal once banned in Soviet Russia, is returning to the Metropolitan Opera.

The Met’s first production of Cherubini’s work, in the Italian version, opens the season. The soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is aware of the pressure.

Yadkin Arts Council is hosting the exhibit “Handmade: A Portrait of the Artist’s Tools” by Bryan Rierson through Oct. 28 at Welborn Gallery in the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center at

World premiere art works dominate this week's list of best bets.

Barrie Kosky and Yuval Sharon, two of opera’s finest directors, open new productions in Chicago and Detroit.