Opera-Lytes just finished their run of RUDDIGORE, OR THE WITCHES CURSE, an operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan, and you can read my review below. Of course, the very British G&S operettas are sung in the ...

At Opera Theater of St. Louis here recently, this aria came across with stunning immediacy, because Rigoletto (baritone Roland Wood) sang the words with stinging crispness and brooding power in an ...

English Touring Opera has announced its Spring 2025 season, exploring music inspired by the works of William Shakespeare. Featuring a new production of Bellini’s The Capulets and the Montagues, the ...

English National Opera (ENO) will present a semi-staged production of Benjamin Britten's comic opera Albert Herring, directed and designed by Antony McDonald for a limited run: Monday 13 and Thursday ...

In continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in ...

Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

With “Rigoletto” and “The Coronation of Poppea,” Opera Theater of St. Louis remains committed to presenting works in translation. By Anthony Tommasini ST. LOUIS — The most disturbing moment in Verdi’s ...