Regent theatre, MelbourneDirector Constantine Costi has transformed Paris into a medieval panopticon worthy of Ken Russell, but the lavish opulence makes way for genuine emotion ...

The San Francisco Opera Orchestra, led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim, brought color and drama to "Strauss in Concert," with ...

Peter Kellner and Slávka Zámečníková lead a superb San Francisco Opera revival with standout performances from Thomas Mole ...

This Pulitzer-winning opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels is inspired by the memoir of 19th-century Islamic scholar Omar ibn Said.

What did our critic think of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Shanghai Grand Theatre? Some musicals feel like they are made to be revisited, and The Phantom ...

Here, a trio of towering bibles became the walls (crawling with veiled imps and scripture-winged angels) that closed in on Jean, its titular prophet in this story of a tormented man caught up in the ...

Emilie Kealani and Minghao Liu as Corinna and Belfiore. Photo: Steven Pisano Revivals across the globe followed, including a 1999 production by New York City Opera, but Viaggio didn’t actively ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heidi Stober as Mary in Thea Musgrave's "Mary, Queen of Scots." (Matthew Washburn/San Francisco Opera) Queens rarely get happy ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — He comes here every day, to gather wood. Axe in hand, the woodcutter (baritone Geoffrey Schmelzer) sang as much when he introduced “In A Grove” with see-sawing modulation, ...

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 ...