Opera-Lytes just finished their run of RUDDIGORE, OR THE WITCHES CURSE, an operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan, and you can read my review below. Of course, the very British G&S operettas are sung in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

YOU may as well devote at least part of your summer to the study of English, for it appears that there will be not less than three associations presenting opera in that language in town next season.

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 ...