Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a ...

The Russian singer, shunned over her past support of Vladimir V. Putin, made her first American appearance since 2019 at a ...

ARIANA MATER, the opera by Kaija Saariaho, who died last summer at 70, won this year's Grammy for Best Opera Recording, for ...

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

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

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

created here in the Oslo Opera House workshop in 2015. The ballet is based on Abbé Prévost’s novel from 1731 – but critics were disapproving after the premiere with The Royal Ballet in ...

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.

This revival of Janáček’s earliest operatic masterpiece marks the first occasion on which Jakub Hrůša has conducted the Royal Opera following the announcement of his appointment as Antonio ...

Years 25 Buildings series is Oslo Opera House, a Snøhetta-designed project that pioneered the concept of architecture as landscape. The home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet has become one ...