The English Civil War provides obstacles to Bellini’s lovers, but instead of amping up the drama, the additional history knocks it off-kilter.

A surreal, musically luminous revival of Richard Foreman and Michael Gordon’s “What to Wear” arrives at BAM, blending avant-garde staging, a standout ensemble and a haunting meditation on beauty, iden ...

From her first appearance on stage, it was clear that mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina was no flash in the pan when she gave us a scorching Carmen when this production was new just two years ago. The program ...

Heartbeat Opera, which specializes in rethinking classic titles for contemporary audiences, opened its first fully staged new productions in 3 1/2 years at the Baruch Performing Arts Center last week.

AMHERST — Opera channels our clearest emotions: those so innate that they splash out in naive singsong, and those so deep that, when released, they can only bear to be sung. “The Onion,” with a ...

The Glimmerglass Festival, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this season (through Aug. 17), changed the face of American opera. Along with its fellow summer festivals in Santa Fe and St. Louis, ...

This summer’s Santa Fe Opera season, which runs through Aug. 23, skews toward standard repertoire, but there were surprises within that narrow compass. Director Melly Still gave Wagner’s “Die Walküre” ...

One question that arises from Minnesota Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”: how did such an inane story become so embedded in the consciousness of Western culture?

Opera Orlando artistic director Grant Preisser had a nifty idea: There are two shortish operas, both set in a town square in Sicily, both taking place in a single day and both dealing with love and ...

It shocked even me. With the unveiling of Aldoro, the “fairy godfather” in the Green Mountain Opera Festival production of “La Cenerentola,” jaws dropped — and raucous laughter ensued. That’s pretty ...