The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” directed by Charles Edwards, is “a retro move,” said Peter ...

Conor Hanratty didn’t see his first opera until he was in London for his 21st birthday. It was Puccini’s Turandot at the Royal Opera House, in Covent Garden, in Andrei Serban’s production, which was ...

IN JANUARY the Royal Opera House announced the new slate of Jette Parker artists. With its five year-long positions, the Jette Parker Young Artist programme is a sought-after destination among ...

On both sides of the Atlantic the new opera season went off like a rocket. The Royal Opera’s new production of Puccini’s Tosca pulled in the crowds, not least thanks to the return of controversial ...

In Germany, live, staged opera is making a gradual return. Just last week, an ambitious second installment of director Stefan Herheim’s Ring Cycle opened in Berlin. And in Bavaria, the site of the ...

If you're interested in opera, you might know the face of the 34-year-old baritone Will Liverman. This fall, it gazed out from posters and websites advertising the reopening of the Metropolitan Opera ...

Is opera healthy today, or is it a 400-year-old art form struggling for its life in the face of fractured budgets, aging audiences and an explosion of new media options to occupy our eyes and ears? We ...

Covid-19 shoved Jeff Sweat into a medical coma for three weeks last winter, face down on a ventilator, on death’s trap door. “I took care of him when he was literally near death,” said Dr. Nida Qadir, ...

While I was playing piano at a university, two opera singers joined in unexpectedly — and their voices completely transformed ...

For years when I was an HR person with a side career singing opera, people would ask me "Such different worlds! How do you split your time between them?" They are not different worlds. The backstage ...

It must be the acoustics. A trio of anonymous operatic vocalists were captured in a jaw-dropping singalong on a nearly empty New York City subway car last Sunday. Obscured by face masks, the singers ...