One of the world's most famous and romantic operas will open the Kentucky Opera's 2022-23 season this fall. Five performances of Giacomo Puccini’s "La bohème" will launch the 70th anniversary season ...

With a new opera season starting, at least via streaming or tourism, it might be a good time to ask what opera is. Opera is like the movies. There’s the broad term of movies but within that are dozens ...

Since 2012, Opera Australia has presented the romantic favourite on December 31 in the Joan Sutherland Theatre. This year, the company has attracted Kovalevska to appear as the heroine Mimi, a role ...

When San Diego Opera opens Giacomo Puccini’s beloved romantic opera “Tosca” on March 25, soprano Michelle Bradley will be performing the role of Tosca for only the second time in her professional ...

“Soap opera” is a term that conjures cliché images. In hindsight it’s a rather sexist phrase, like the studio-system category of “women’s pictures.” Soap operas have always dealt, at times in depth, ...

Imagine a perfect Valentine's Day weekend. You've dined on the lobster. You've downed the champagne. You've opened the chocolate box and eaten the best ones. What's next? Opera. It's the most romantic ...

There must be something in the air, with a couple of New York's small opera companies transporting 19th century German Romantic operas by Weber and Wagner to Texas within a couple of months, in search ...

Martha is a romantic comic opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow set to a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese and based on a story by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. Flotow had ...

1. Wagner's four-opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibelungs," based on old Germanic legend, in turn inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." The center of the story is a ring that bestows ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: The story revolves around Hanna Glawari (Holly Bewlay), a wealthy widow from the small Balkan state of Petrovenia where the government fears that if she marries a foreigner, her ...

Jews have always had a complicated relationship with opera. Ostracized in European society, Jewish composers and librettists had few chances to make professional headway; perhaps the most successful ...