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McVicar's beautiful vision is paired with the wonderful voices of five of Australia's and one of America's finest singers and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra to expose the disturbing attitudes that unfortunately still prevail.
“The word and genre 'opera' is much broader and more inclusive in the 21st century than it was in the past,” says Huang Ruo, composer/co-librettist of PARADISE INTERRUPTED, his mesmerizing, tantalizing opera that was one of the opening selections of this year's Lincoln Center Festival.
Giuseppe Verdi's operatic masterpiece La Traviata opened triumphantly at the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch last night to a capacity audience.
A simply splendid production of 'The Mikado' has opened at the Union Avenue Opera in St.
Songs From Behind the Front was presented by State Opera as part of the Flanders Fields Poppy Trail commemorations.
Incredibly strong singing voices and an astounding orchestra guided by conductor Mark Sforzini make for a top-flight production.
Sir Kenneth MacMillan silenced the Bard to the wordless storytelling of corporeal movement.
If you're a fan of Puccini-esque music and the “magic realism” of the great Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Daniel Catan's FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS may be for you.
BWW Review: THE GONDOLIERS - Comic Opera At Its Finest Celebrating its 40th year, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Austin brings us a world class production of THE GONDOLIERS.
PATIENCE & SARAH—at least in the production of this chamber opera seen this past week at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village, as part of the New York Opera Fest and 18 years after its premiere at Lincoln Center Festival—is a beautiful but somewhat lopsided affair.
The weather, the stars and “the stars” aligned the other night in Central Park, when the Metropolitan Opera performed its annual recital at SummerStage.
Opera Australia's interpretation of Sergei Prokofief's THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES returns to delight and entrance Sydney audiences.
New Zealand Opera's new production of Mozart's final opera The Magic Flute is an absolute delight.
“Bride's side or groom's? I'm Count Almaviva,” said the elegant actor as we entered what, we are told, is the Count's summer palace.
Recognisable melodies of Bizet's CARMEN and iconic images of Havana are blended together to retell this passionate story of infatuation, independence, strength and seduction for a modern audience.
Children of All Ages! In the center ring was a death-defying feat of legerdemain guaranteed to bring a smile to your face, a tap to your toe and an audience to its feet.
Salman Rushdie's tale of love and vengeance becomes a powerful opera in this commissioned work at Opera Theatre of St.
To celebrate their 70th anniversary, Welsh National Opera returns to the Birmingham Hippodrome to perform Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci; the same operas the company performed for their debut performance.
'ARIADNE ON NAXOS' balances wondrously between classic beauty and parody.
For a director known as opera's bad boy, Calixto Bieito turned to something awfully familiar in CARMEN for his US debut.
“There is no sense in which [the play] THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST needs to be an opera.
Early in May, Gustavo Dudamel—the brilliant music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic—was booed at the opening of TURANDOT at the Vienna State Opera purportedly for playing too loud.
Opera Theatre of St.
American Premiere of Short Opera by British Composer Robin Haigh
OTSL has opened a delicious 'La boheme'.
