When Karel Čapek wrote his play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” in 1920, the battle against machines replacing human labor had been fought for more than a century, with humans invariably losing. Now, more ...

Guerilla Opera will offer two courses to artists who are interested in exploring the art of writing through the lens of opera. The first is the “Guerilla Lab: Libretto Writing”, a four-class summer ...

The company’s overstuffed new staging of Bellini’s final work, set during the English Civil War, proves a marvelous vocal ...

At Opera Philadelphia, Vivaldi’s music meets a contemporary libretto by Sarah Ruhl; in New York, Lincoln Center Theater ...

Nabucco - Il Libretto: Giuseppe Verdi lo scrisse nel 1842. Il grande successo dell'opera lirica: trama e protagonisti del libretto Nabucco – Il Libretto: Giuseppe Verdi lo scrisse nel 1842 Nabucco è ...

The murder of former Russian security officer Aleksandr Litvinenko has been turned into a two-act opera, its composer announced in London on February 24. Anthony Bolton said it took him three years to ...

We’re at a pizza parlor, listening to “The Perversity of Captain Morgan.” This opera has everything: drunk pirates, “horny fish,” a preteen stowaway from Colorado, and a character referred to only as ...

“Theodor,” an original Israeli Opera production about two periods in the life of founder of modern Zionism Theodor Herzl, could be considered required listening for anyone pondering the current state ...

Your humble correspondent requires a libretto at the opera house or he goes nuts trying to figure out what all that musical gesturing, garroting and genuflecting is telling the audience, which always ...

“Omar,” the new opera by composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, finds its strength in the simplicity of prayer. The work, which is too fluid to be classified in discrete musical or dramatic ...

The work, by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and the American playwright George Brant, is inspired by the accounts of mothers whose children were taken during the war. By Javier C. Hernández ...