Opera offers many stories about this, but trying to spin “Macbeth” into one of them was very much a square-peg-round-hole ...

Sprawling, flawed, impractical: history has not been kind to Verdi’s rarely staged opera The Sicilian Vespers. Even the composer was frustrated by its failure to stick in the repertory since its ...

To be labelled ‘the premier Verdi baritone of your generation’ is the kind of line that can stick to a singer, whether they like it or not. Quinn Kelsey, returning to the Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO) ...

Ildebrando D’Arcangelo as Jean Procida, Joyce El-Khoury as Helene and Michael Gibson as Daniéli in The Sicilian Vespers (Photo:Tristram Kenton) When the Royal Opera announced a bicentenary staging of ...

Joyce El-Khoury and Quinn Kelsey deliver plenty of vocal fireworks, while Speranza Scappucci drives the score with authority in a visually overstuffed revival of Verdi’s grand French opera at Covent ...

Verdi's Il Trovatore recorded at the Royal Opera House, conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, with star leads Rachel Willis-Sorenson and Michael Fabiano. Show more Recorded earlier this year at the Royal ...

Celebrities gathered to celebrate the Metropolitan Opera’s new season, which opened with “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” Celebrities gathered to celebrate the Metropolitan Opera’s new ...

Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece reimagines the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet as a political drama between rival factions in 13th-century Verona. With lush melodies and sweeping emotion, "I Capuleti e i ...

The Metropolitan Opera, now the largest performing arts institution in the United States, was founded by unpleasant people at a Wall Street steakhouse. Its first subscribers, robber barons mad to be ...

‘When his beloved wife’s ivory fingers danced lightly on the keyboard, the husband sang the most soulful “alto” (?), and the couple flew joyfully like a pair of larks. The Kim Moon-bo couple, who ...

Tracy demanded to know who the woman in the Quartermaine crypt was, and she introduced herself as Monica’s younger sister, Veronica Bard, here to pay her respects. “But please, just call me Ronnie,” ...