Rarities that deserve their place in opera returned to stages last week: “Die Tote Stadt,” in Boston, and “L’Amant Anonyme,” ...

The Norwegian soprano talks about her upcoming Met performance in Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” meeting Angelina Jolie and loving ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

Years ago, I lived in New York City and had season tickets to the Metropolitan Opera. Though loving most kinds of classical music, opera was not one of them. I nodded off at concerts (much to the ...

Givonna Joseph, a mezzo-soprano who founded Opera Créole with her daughter in 2011, first encountered Morgiane in 2014 when a ...

Oslo, the dynamic capital of Norway, blends modern architecture with breathtaking natural scenery. Iconic landmarks like the ...

Manon is coming to Den Norske Opera in March. In a world where extravagant riches and abject poverty exist side by side, ...

Snøhetta's Oslo Opera House was also recently named as the most significant building of 2007 in Dezeen's latest series, which lists the 25 most significant buildings of the 21st century so far.

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

It was nicely appropriate that one of the ovations on first night should be for conductor Jakub Hrusa, who was making his maiden appearance as the new music director of the Royal Opera House.

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.

the impact he gets from the house orchestra is seared on the memory. The composer's first great score has its problems in a not always clear orchestration – later he went for extremes, which pose ...