Recent stagings of classics like “La Traviata” and rarities like “Intermezzo” are among the highlights. Holiday weeks, quiet in many opera houses, are always a good time to take a detour from live ...
For the ASO's final concert this season, the cast showcases Metropolitan Opera star soprano Angela Meade acclaimed tenor John Matthew Myers; baritone Alexander Birch Elliott and bass-baritones ...
The Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Richard Strauss' 'Elektra,' with soprano Nina Stemme in the title role. The same production is being presented by the Dallas Opera, but with Marjorie Owens as ...
What do you get when you combine a masquerade mask, a pocket watch, an extraordinary amount of champagne, and the most ...
From its insidious opening clarinet solo, Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is a creepy, unsettling piece of theater, its story rooted in unhealthy sexual obsession. For his new production at the ...
Salzburg’s great music festival is traditionally dedicated to Mozart. For 30 years, thousands of visitors have flocked each summer to the ancient town which sprawls under its towering 11th Century ...
Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...