I wrote a forty-to-fifty-page treatment, which no one ever saw, of how the opera would unfold. And then I got that down to fifteen pages, which the composer saw, and then ten pages, which the ...

The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away ...

One of the busiest stage directors in Europe is fully arriving, at last, with “The Threepenny Opera” this spring.

A concert performance of “Vanessa” freshly argued for the vitality of a work that deserves to be staged but languishes with ...

Mala Emde plays Vera Brandes, the 18-year-old music promoter without whom Keith Jarrett's celebrated piano recording, ‘The ...

Brattleboro’s Pageant consisted of two parts: episodes embracing various events in Brattleboro’s history and the production of Judge Royall Tyler’s play, “The Contrast.” The pageant took place over fo ...

Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...

The Czech National Symphony Orchestra takes the Lied Center stage with a breathtaking program including American pianist ...

Central Pest's Hungarian State Opera House has been an institution in Budapest since its opening in 1884. Featuring a neo-Renaissance style, the opera house holds more than 1,200 seats and has a ...

The dramatic short brings the rivalry between the two athletes to life in a grand European opera house, complete with a full symphony composed especially for the film – and a cameo appearance by ...