The Norwegian soprano talks about her upcoming Met performance in Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” meeting Angelina Jolie and loving ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

The humorous and witty opera is one of only six of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ surviving works.

The artistic director Calixto Bieito and the orchestral director Pablo Heras-Casado, both Spanish, direct scenery and music ...

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

It was nicely appropriate that one of the ovations on first night should be for conductor Jakub Hrusa, who was making his maiden appearance as the new music director of the Royal Opera House.

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.

the impact he gets from the house orchestra is seared on the memory. The composer's first great score has its problems in a not always clear orchestration – later he went for extremes, which pose ...

This revival of Janáček’s earliest operatic masterpiece marks the first occasion on which Jakub Hrůša has conducted the Royal Opera following the announcement of his appointment as Antonio ...

The next instalment in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is Oslo Opera House, a Snøhetta-designed project that pioneered the concept of architecture as landscape.

Do you love the music of Verdi? The Opéra Bastille welcomes Don Carlos, one of his masterpieces, from March 29 to April 25, 2025. A grandiose opera combining drama, love and power, staged by ...

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