A Monteverdi masterpiece and a new work by George Lewis are played simultaneously in an American Modern Opera Company production at Lincoln Center. By Zachary Woolfe When you enter the David H. Koch ...

Many composers and librettists have found the opera stage a fine lens through which to examine specific moments in history or illustrate the lives of individual figures. Last summer, a classical radio ...

KEENE, N.H. Two modern operas -- A very interesting point can be made about how one is introduced to an opera. If an initiate has heard recordings of only (say) "Il Trovatore," he sees opera as a ...

Peter Eotvos’s “Three Sisters,” based on the 1900 play by Anton Chekhov, is at the festival this year for the first time. By A.J. Goldmann Reporting from Salzburg, Austria On a hot, drizzly afternoon ...

Up-and-coming musicians, part of a rigorous eight-week intensive program, return to perform in the Miami Beach Classical Music Festival (MMF) with a series of immersive performances, operas, and live ...

NEW YORK — Change has come to the Metropolitan Opera House. The largest repertory opera in the world is in the throes of innovation, simulcasting performances in HD theaters, introducing Sunday ...

It's been three decades since the Houston Grand Opera presented John Adams' "Nixon in China," the company's beloved world premiere that changed not only how modern political operas were viewed but ...

San Diego Opera won’t be announcing its next season until May, but two of the city’s smaller companies — Opera Neo and newly formed Opera a la Carte San Diego — have unveiled their upcoming plans, and ...