Taiwan opera is revered across the Asian island. One of its most beloved traits is its gender-bending character archetypes, and its best-known actors are women who portray men. Opera - from Italy to ...

Leaving the War Memorial Opera House earlier this month, after the West Coast premiere of Poul Ruder’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” I was left with a distinct thought: Is there where modern opera is going?

A familiar wooden puppet takes on new life this weekend as Boulder Opera presents Jonathan Dove's operatic adaptation of "The Adventures of Pinocchio" at eTown Hall. The production offers a fresh take ...

Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know how you do it,” the tenor recently told BBC Radio 3. In the same interview, ...

The story of Gilgamesh has survived 4,000 years. Now it arrives on a California opera stage, partly sung in the language it ...

While Battlestar Galactica is a sci-fi benchmark, these sci-fi space opera shows rival it with in storytelling, characters ...

There’s the rip-roaring operetta and the cutting-edge world premiere. The baroque masterpiece and one of the genre’s all-time fan favorites. The rarely heard story dusted off from the bookshelf of ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Doug Balliett promises he didn’t have an allegory in mind when he started. No, really. The composer behind “Rome is Falling,” which will receive a workshop performance, 4 p.m. Aug. 10, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - "Contemporary" and "opera" are scary words, but when Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos writes one that includes the sound of car horns and slide guitars, his aim is to engage his ...