One day 52 years ago, George Cleve, the San Jose Symphony’s conductor, was kicking back for a few beers with some of the ...

Mozart wrote his first opera at 12, and went on to pen 22 in the course of his life This summer there’s a rare opportunity to see Mozart’s La finta giardiniera fully staged in a new Glyndebourne ...

Genesis Opera Theatre recently announced its upcoming production of Mozart’s timeless opera “The Magic Flute,” set to captivate audiences from Sept. 6-8 at STAR Repertory Theatre in Escondido. “The ...

The Santa Fe Opera's new staging of Mozart's The Magic Flute is a stunningly designed, acutely directed, and audience ...

This week, Chicago’s being treated to dueling performances of Mozart by the city’s two major opera companies. If you like Mozart, it’s a minifestival—complementary performances of the prodigy’s ...

In the mid-’70s I was living in Northampton, Mass., biding my time for the summer before becoming an impoverished graduate student in music. Every morning I got up at 5 a.m. to go sweep floors and ...

If viewers can focus on its engaging young cast, vivid appearances by several international opera stars and well-executed melding of reality and fantasy, “The Magic Flute,” the latest film adaptation ...

Pianist Katie Mahan in front of the cottage where Mozart wrote large parts of his opera "The Magic Flute." Freemasons, the Illuminati and the mystery of who killed Mozart are all part of the lore ...

Opera is impossible and always has been. The operatic ideal, an imagined union of all the human senses and all art forms—music, drama, dance, poetry, painting—is unattainable by its very nature. This ...

Reporting from Salzburg, Austria — As the world reacted to news of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that ended with one participant driving his car into counter-protesters and ...