Composed by Kevin Day, the Cincinnati Opera’s Afrofuturist world premiere is a promising opening to its commissioning ...

Tennessee Williams’s darkly operatic one-act play becomes a proper opera in a new adaptation by the composer Courtney Bryan.

Bellini’s tale of Roundheads vs Cavaliers requires vocal gymnastics on an Olympic scale. Lisette Oropesa rises effortlessly to the challenge in Richard Jones’s detailed new production ...

A concert performance in an orchestral reduction of Puccini’s colossal final opera was stylishly led by conductor Naomi Woo with José de Eça’s Calaf heading a strong cast ...

Others survive because extraordinary singers keep making the case for them. Richard Jones’ new production of I Puritani ...

Buxton International Festival, long known for its explorations of some of the less well-known parts of the opera repertoire, ...

There are good reasons Bellini’s I Puritani has not been seen at Covent Garden since the early 1990s, but despite the uneven ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

This season, Des Moines Metro Opera is taking my favorite type of risk and doing an Opera that audiences might not be ...

On the opening night of director Richard Jones's excellent production of Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, England's captain, ...