Tag Archives: opera

As it manages artists and tours the agency works to facilitate cross-cultural exchange of music, opera, dance and more while building careers.

A first-rate, meticulously crafted operatic holiday revue with glorious singing and dancing, just what we need in dark times.

Opera returned to NYC with a superb semi-staged production outdoors at Lincoln Center starring an array of excellent, big-voiced up-and-comers.

The conductor spoke with us about reimagining opera for a young video-obsessed generation, and about the challenges and rewards of staging live opera with an audience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three productions stretched the boundaries of the opera and the song cycle at this year's Prototype Festival.

David Hertzberg's hallucinatory choral fantasy based on an Aleister Crowley fairy tale makes a vividly imaginative statement even in an audio recording.

NYGASP's 'Mikado' is replete with clever updates, but its rich flowering of stage basics is what makes it a great Gilbert and Sullivan production.

In Heartbeat Opera's smartly staged and beautifully sung reimagining of Der Freischütz, the mystical story Weber adapted from a supernatural folk tale resettles comfortably in the American South.

This one-act opera dramatizes the genesis and composition of 'The Tale of Genji.' With emotionally penetrating music and glorious singing, On Site Opera's production has as much to say about our modern world as about ancient Japan.

Philip Venables' opera based on Sarah Kane's last play, '4.48 Psychosis,' is a raw, energizing dive into the maelstrom of mental illness.