Director Yuval Sharon’s company debut is an imaginative, expansive production headed by two top-flight singers, Lise Davidsen ...

This is a difficult opera to stage now, and director Matthew Ozawa has found an effective solution. And audiences still hear every note of Puccini’s beloved 1904 score.

Philip Glass is an old hand at scoring films. His 1994 work with Jean Cocteau's superb "La Belle et La Bte" (1946) is the second of a Cocteau trilogy including "Orphee" and "Les ...

Menotti’s opera entertainingly holds the stage. Its satire, more gentle than biting, is couched in the musical vocabulary and ...

Yuval Sharon’s debut production featured an astonishing performance by the soprano Lise Davidsen. It is the event of the season.

Harry Bicket and the English Concert presented the composer’s highly theatrical but little-known 1745 oratorio in an uneven but frequently arresting performance.

In this version, a team of over 100 scholars, editors and engravers completed Dédé’s orchestration and prepared a modern edition. In this concert version, the material is cut down to a tidy, engaging ...

Philip Glass is an old hand at scoring films. His 1994 work with Jean Cocteau's superb "La Belle et La Bête" (1946) is the second of a Cocteau trilogy including "Orphée" and "Les Enfants Terribles." ...

The Atlanta Opera’s staging of Verdi’s “Macbeth” is a riveting work of operatic theater, magnificently sung and vividly acted. This new production, which presents its remaining performances Friday and ...

This summer’s Santa Fe Opera season, which runs through Aug. 23, skews toward standard repertoire, but there were surprises within that narrow compass. Director Melly Still gave Wagner’s “Die Walküre” ...

NORTHAMPTON — As I walked and whistled out of the Academy of Music on Nov. 9, Able Seaman Paul Peelle — still made up for the stage and dressed in stripes of white and Royal Navy blue — reminded me of ...

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, ...