Earlier this month, the Metropolitan Opera opened “La Sonnambula.” Now, it is offering another bel canto classic: “La Fille ...

Sierra was 27, an infant by opera standards, when she sang her first Gilda at the Met. Already, she was capable of beautiful ...

The group, which has performed often in Bengaluru, returned to the city for the International Music and Arts Society’s golden ...

David McVicar's production of Mozart's Magic Flute was first seen at Covent Garden 20 years ago, and its latest appearance ...

“She was trying to expose us to everything, to get us to think beyond our small home town,” said Solis, who grew up in Santa Ana. “In many ways, she really awoke this curiosity in the arts in me, and ...

It’s unusual to report on audience behaviour in a review, let alone open with it, but yesterday’s at the Volksoper was quite the most well-behaved I’ve encountered in years: attentive, no scrolling on ...

The heady blend of Mozart’s operatic wonder makes for a richly satisfying evening. Scandalous for its day, in the late 1700s, because the play on which the opera was based dared to show the plebs ...

In 1781, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – one of the most profound geniuses the human race has produced – sat as a servant at the table of the Archbishop of Salzburg, above the cooks but below the valets.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1781 masterpiece “Idomeneo,” his early venture into the then-prevalent opera seria style of grand themes, historical figures and mythological stories, strikes Australian ...

A highlight of the evening was the way moments of comedy and farce were allowed to breathe without undermining the emotional stakes. The quartet’s “Soave sia il vento” in Act II was a model of lyric ...