Mozart lived to write opera, but he struggled with box office success. The initial run of "The Marriage of Figaro" in Vienna ran only nine times before closing. "Cosi fan tutte" was performed only ...

Patrick Carfizzi as Papageno Ava Pine as Pamina during dress rehearsal of The Dallas Opera's "The Magic Flute" at Winspear Opera House. Let’s admit it: We don’t immediately relate to a lot, maybe even ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

AN opera singer called Riccardo Simonetti sounds about as Italian as you could get - but the man who's singing Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute for Opera North from Tuesdsay is really a Lancashire ...

INTERVIEW In her first directorial work for the State Opera, Barbora Horáková conjures up a new version of Mozart's "Magic Flute" - with wise trolls, dark spooks and plenty of humanity.

As British bass-baritone Christopher Maltman prepares to take on the challenging role of Wotan in Barrie Kosky’s new staging of Die Walküre – the second installment in the Royal Ballet and Opera’s new ...

Writer Joanna Cannon draws on her experience as a psychiatrist to ask if poems about death or despair can damage the vulnerable and suicidal or can be a source of help and solace. Show more Some of ...