Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz's El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego had its Met premiere May 14—and the reviews are in! The ...

With a libretto by Nilo Cruz, the work had its world premiere at the San Diego Opera in 2022—later moving to San Francisco and Chicago’s Lyric Opera—but the Met offers an entirely new production by ...

Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day ...

The 2026 season of the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre will unofficially open a month early with the debut of The Cat in the Hat on Saturday, ...

An opera season at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is not built around a single theme first. Instead, it takes shape through a complex mix of artistic vision and practical decision-making, with themes ...

Oak Park native and art critic Jerry Saltz “took thousands of photographs of the New York art world throughout the 1990s. Every opening he went to, every party and studio visit was documented with his ...

A rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera in New York last year.Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images The economic fallout from the Iran war has extended to a planned Saudi funding deal for New York's ...

The planned partnership between the Metropolitan Opera and the Saudi Arabian government is off, Met officials announced on Thursday. The Met cited the "current economic situation in Saudi Arabia" as ...

Has a review of Eugene Onegin—that is, a performance of Tchaikovsky’s opera, based on Pushkin’s novel-in-verse—ever begun with the Nanny? Well, this one will. She was Larissa Diadkova, at the ...

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Lyric Opera of Chicago’s coming 2026-27 season will include seven operas — “Don Giovanni,” “Omar,” “Don Pasquale,” “Hérodiade: An Opera in Concert,” “Ariadne auf Naxos,” “La traviata,” and “Susannah” ...

Despite its beauty and power, the Met’s Innocence had me wanting to run. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera For 400 years, opera’s business has been the aestheticization of pain. Wrenching loss, blinding ...