Masquerade is a new immersive theater reimagining of The Phantom of the Opera---here's our review of this NYC adventure. The post MASQUERADE Review: Immersive PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Is a Quintessential ...

The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to fascist Italy of the 1930s, setting up weird geographical and chronological ...

Opera is perceived as the most traditional of the performing arts—its repertory ossified into a canon of 19th-century warhorses, its performance style determined by the constraints of the proscenium ...

In this version, a team of over 100 scholars, editors and engravers completed Dédé’s orchestration and prepared a modern edition. In this concert version, the material is cut down to a tidy, engaging ...

Audiences hoping to encounter favorite works brush up against directors trying to make 21st-century opera fresh.

With even large companies struggling to survive, why did soprano and voice teacher Abla Hamza decide to found Opera À La Carte? Her goals were laudable. As national opportunities continued to shrink, ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — An opera it was not, but in the world premiere of “mad scramble for crumbs,” Opera Saratoga presented a surrealist work of vocal art worth seeing, not only because it is ...

NORTHAMPTON — As I walked and whistled out of the Academy of Music on Nov. 9, Able Seaman Paul Peelle — still made up for the stage and dressed in stripes of white and Royal Navy blue — reminded me of ...

"Fellow Travelers," about the passionate relationship between two men during the McCarthy-era Lavender Scare of the 1950s, is at Seattle Opera through March 1.

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” ...