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 ...

Chorus of approval Jessica Pratt starred as Armida in Garsington's production of the Rossini opera last JuneRobbie Jack / Corbis The bucolic English countryside may seem a strange setting for the ...

English National Opera has announced the first wave of plans for a major new partnership between the company and the city-region of Greater Manchester for the next three years, enabling ENO to be ...

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 ...

At Opera Theater of St. Louis here recently, this aria came across with stunning immediacy, because Rigoletto (baritone Roland Wood) sang the words with stinging crispness and brooding power in an ...

Kentucky Opera announces its 23/24 season. All four operas will be sung in English, with performances in The Brown Theatre and the Opera Center. Appearing on the Kentucky Opera stage for the first ...

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 ...