Opera flourishes: in spite of all the financial cutbacks, the UK’s opera companies are managing to create new work and ...

In the era of Carmen On the Common and the dominance of classical opera, finding original, modern opera that both entertains and provokes audiences has becoming increasingly difficult. But the ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - A different kind of opera is coming to Fort Worth. It is performed entirely in English, and tells the story of an American who was the longest held prisoner of the Vietnam ...

Milan’s famed opera house is cracking down on the underdressed, even as it and other European opera companies try to attract a wider audience. By Amelia Nierenberg The Glyndebourne Festival, which ...

Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

After the British composer and conductor Benjamin Britten wrote two serious operas in the form of Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia, he decided to turn his hand to comedy. The result was Albert ...

English Touring Opera has announced its Spring 2025 season, exploring music inspired by the works of William Shakespeare. Featuring a new production of Bellini’s The Capulets and the Montagues, the ...

Trevor Jones works for the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Some students from this institution were members of the chorus for this performance. Peter Grimes, one of the centrepiece ...

Royal English Opera, Covent Garden's current show is Constance which began performances on 1/23/1865. What when was Royal English Opera, Covent Garden built? Royal English Opera, Covent Garden was ...

The bucolic English countryside may seem a strange setting for the consumptive heroines and dashing heroes of classical opera, but country-house opera is a long-established feature of the summer ...