Opera

NEW YORK—There is perhaps nothing more painful than the forced separation of two people who are truly in love—no matter how legitimate the reason for that separation. This topical subject ...

Imagine opening night. You’re sitting on a plush red chair and looking out at a gilded stage in a ...

CALGARY, Alberta—Long ago, singers in China and Europe sang with especially pure and beautiful operatic tones thanks to ...

Puccini's first opera, if it is known at all, is known best as the two-act “Le Villi.” But, in ...

For the past 23 years, opera—and avocados—have thrived on Rick and Joan Kennaway’s “Operacado” orchard at Glenbervie, Whangarei, ...

Leonardo Vinci—not to be confused with the iconic painter and inventor—is one of the Italian composers from the ...

Carolyn Sproule was 4 years old when she saw “The Sound of Music” and promptly decided she was ...

One day, while walking down the corridor of the seminary where he was studying to become a priest, ...

Richard Tucker began his career at the Metropolitan Opera in 1945, before it even came to its Lincoln ...

Each year, Opera Saratoga packs up one production into one van and brings it directly to thousands of ...

NEW YORK—Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" is a Christmas nativity story. It is a one-act ...

As soon as China’s controversial opera “Lake Honghu” arrived in Australia, it met with protesters from the local ...

Birgit Nilsson and the Royal Swedish Opera have flourished in tandem. Following her debut in 1946 and her ...

Who Is This Really About? The history of opera—and of the plays on which they’re often based—is inextricably ...

This colorful and quirky new production of Mozart’s final opera is directed and designed by Netia Jones. The ...

BARCELONA—Montserrat Caballe, who put opera onto the pop charts by singing the song "Barcelona" with Freddie Mercury three ...

This album is the fifth in Deutsche Grammophon's project to record the major Mozart operas with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Chamber Orchestra ...

Kill off your story’s heroine? You misogynist! Some critics seem to accept as fact the theory that if ...

What does it mean to appreciate the little things? It seems we often focus so much on the ...

The only thing better than one new opera recording by opera star Joyce DiDonato is two, and both ...

Mauro Peter was just 17 when he performed in a staged musical with his boys’ choir in his ...

“Rigoletto” is one of the greatest works of the operatic repertoire with beautiful melodies and a complex plot ...

Amid the poinsettias and the Christmas cactuses, shoppers at Russo’s supermarket in Watertown, Massachusetts, were treated to another ...

TORONTO—Does an elixir of love exist? And if so, what are the ingredients? It's a question that ill-starred ...

The Metropolitan Opera Guild has received encouraging feedback about its opera podcasts.

When Christopher Fecteau moved to New York City in 1997, he discovered there were few opportunities for young ...

TORONTO—Mozart's "The Magic Flute" is one of those rare operas that appeals to all ages—children and adults alike. ...