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

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 White Snakes Projects production company presented “White Raven, Black Dove,” a science fiction fantasy space opera about life after “the sixth mass extinction,” from Friday to Sunday at the ...

AMHERST — Opera channels our clearest emotions: those so innate that they splash out in naive singsong, and those so deep that, when released, they can only bear to be sung. “The Onion,” with a ...

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

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 ...

The principal trope in the plot of The Sorcerer is one fabled in antiquity and leading famously through Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore: a magical love potion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dancer Huiwang Zhang as the title role in Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's "The Monkey King." (Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) ...

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” ...

What happens when Camille loses her colors? One by one—red, yellow, blue—she finds them again in a short, sweet opera developed specifically for children ages 0 to 4. Brought to life by Milwaukee ...

Vanessa Becerra as Violetta in Berkshire Opera Festival’s production of “La Traviata.” Vanessa Becerra as Violetta and Joshua Blue as Alfredo in Berkshire Opera Festival's production of "La Traviata." ...