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During Francesca Zambello’s 12 years as the festival’s leader, she did what she set out to do: took on “complex issues through storytelling and music making.”

Over the past four decades, Yuju Opera actor Li Shujian has performed at locations ranging from outdoor areas in small villages to grand theaters in big cities.

James Gaffigan is leading a taut “Tristan und Isolde” in Santa Fe ahead of taking the podium at the Komische Oper in Berlin.

When she was 14, her dance teacher told her she had expressive eyes and an oval face, which were best suited for Kunqu Opera. Shao Tianshuai didn't pay much heed to the compliment until her mother persuaded her to give the opera a try.

The Woods Hole Cantata Consort will celebrate its 49th season by presenting ‘Mozart and More,’ performed by chorus, soprano and saxophone soloists, and a string chamber ensemble, with accompanist Dr.

Reprising her acclaimed 2017 role as the scheming princess, Byström is superbly supported at the Edinburgh Festival's Usher Hall

Classical music’s pre-eminent annual event had more revivals than usual, but also a breathless new staging of Janacek’s “Kat’a Kabanova.”

Scottish Opera's promenade production of Bernstein's 1956 score is brilliantly bold, hilariously decadent and superbly sung

Her radio play, “The Passenger in Cabin 45,” became a novel that was translated into 15 languages, a movie and an acclaimed opera.

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