It’s a Friday night and a frisson of anticipation ripples through the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. A bumper crowd has turned out to witness the endurance test that is about to unfold for the ...

Which is opera? “It’s pretty rock.” ‘Opera is punk’: director Richard Jones at the Royal Opera House Credit ... It is complex and odd. Like Wagner.” Jones actually speaks highly ...

The British architect has built an unprecedented factory of fine design. Inside the world of the man who creates exquisite ...

Now we come to a pair of more substantial characters, the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and the composer Richard ... guy and Wagner, well, Wagner was a composer on a much different footpath. Well, ...

One approach for OA would be to renegotiate its contract with the Sydney Opera House to stage grand productions or bankable hit operas that appeal to tourists there, and commit to new and more ...

Saturday night could have given us the opportunity to witness the Opera North debut of Canadian soprano Layla Claire at the ...

It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris opened. Its opulent interior is famous throughout the world. In 2025, it is still a working theater — with 172 performances ...

Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...

To fully enjoy “Peter Pan,” now at the Citizens Opera House under the direction of Lonny Price, you’ll need to be able to channel your inner 10-year-old or actually be 10 years old.