The late Andrew Porter, for many years the classical-music critic of The New Yorker, once wrote that he was tempted to consider “The Mother of Us All,” the composer Virgil Thomson’s second stage ...

John Glover’s Eat the Document is based on Dana Spiotta’s 2006 novel about New Left activists. Maria Baranova-Suzuki Throughout, a tenuous connection is drawn between Weathermen-style 1970s militants ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, Lowell House Opera returned to its historic venue, the Lowell House Dining Hall, with a three-performance run of Dominick Argento’s opera “Postcard from Morocco.” Directed by ...

German director Dirk Schattner's provocative take on Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio" sets the opera inside a teenage girl's bedroom. Last Friday, one of the Garden State's more tranquil ...

Soprano Sarah Nalty, along with tenor Jonathan Lawlor, will be performing the second section of the four-part opera, "American Terror." In the entire work, four ...

Fugazi‘s music has been made into an “opera,” but that doesn’t mean coloratura-soprano renditions of “Shut the Door.” Last year, the New York City experimental music-theater ensemble Object Collection ...

Instead of being ushered to their seats, the audience is beckoned from the foyer of The Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, through a winding hallway, and onto the stage's loading dock. There, a ...

On Wednesday, the Caravan Stage Company held its opening night of “Hacked: The Treasures of the Empire”, an avant-garde experimental opera that challenges viewers to consider the impact corporations ...

The stage scrim is decorated with a wall of window panes; behind these panes is a tilted square column; in front of the large column stands a woman. A mysterious man dresses the woman in multi-colored ...

John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...