A psychological examination of love's extremities in Singapore Lyric Opera's Madama Butterfly, directed by Harry Fehr. Read ...

Schaufer is ideally cast and Farnsworth a dignified Howe as Phibbs and Sandbrook's Thatcher opera shows compelling early promise It would be unthinkable (unless the opera were to cover Thatcher’s ...

This is a continuation of Haydn's London story.I love not only his music but also Haydn's personality itself, so I never tire of writing about him, no matter how much I write.In 1791, the final year ...

Do you like the music of Franz Joseph Haydn, the father of the symphony? It might be a prime example of music whose charm is hard to grasp when you are young. That was the case for me, too, when I ...

At over three hours in duration, "Saint Matthew Passion" moves swiftly and is packed with as much (or more) food for thought as the 14-plus hours of Wagner’s “Ring,” and it expresses a unique and ...

Wilmington Concert Opera announced a collaboration with Philadelphia-based Opera Fresca to perform Bizet's CARMEN in the ...

Suddenly Last Summer,” the composer Courtney Bryan’s first opera, adapts Williams’s play for Bard SummerScape.

The world premiere run of "Suddenly Last Summer" showed some serious musical skill, but continuous tonal shifts left it ...

In a directing career that included over 70 Met Opera broadcasts, he said his work was “dictated by the music, by key change, ...

From dystopian grids to teenage tragedies, we rank 15 bombastic masterpieces that pushed the boundaries of rock’s dramatic storytelling potential.

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...