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 ...

Detroit Opera invites its patrons to travel back to the sparkling salons of 1920s Paris for the next two weekends with a visually stunning production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” opening Saturday ...

Opera Colorado is opening it's 2024/25 season with the sharp, funny romantic comedy "Daughter of the Regiment." This Italian opera is set in France among the 21st French Regiment. The soldiers find ...

For opera fans who can’t wait for our own Opera in Williamsburg’s November showing of “Orfeo ed Euridice,” take note. The ...

The introduction of American composer Samuel Barber’s riveting first opera, “Vanessa,” was marked by uncommon splendor: It had its premiere by the venerable Metropolitan Opera in January 1958, won a ...

The English National Opera's new production of Handel's romantic epic, Rodelinda, has opened at the Coliseum, London, to positive reviews. Written in 1725, Rodelinda is regarded as one of Handel's ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Not everyone can walk from an opera house where he is directing Gounod's "Faust" half a mile to the theater where his musical "Jersey Boys," about the Four Seasons pop group, ...

“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, ...

Howard and Perez have been dating for three years. It's not unusual for "Tosca" to end in tears. This time, though, they were tears of joy for a real-life couple. During curtain call at San Francisco ...