Mantua's court hosts Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo, the earliest opera still performed today. Boasting a large orchestra it is one of the earliest to specify instrumentation, including three organs, ...

The popular, family-friendly annual "Carols on the Lawn" from the Palm Beach Atlantic University Chamber Choir will be at 4 p.m. Dec. 14 in the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden. The Lambert Concert ...

Raymond Aceto’s well-seasoned bass boomed imposingly for the pompous Marquis de la Force, father of Blanche and the Chevalier ...

The cacophonies that seemed so arbitrary when “Salome” was a novelty now sound only like appropriate theatrical dissonances in a predominantly euphonious score. Granting that the Metropolitan stage ...

English National Opera (ENO) will present a new production of Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking at the London Coliseum, ...

The Israeli Opera turns 40 this year, an age that invites both celebration and reflection.

After the British composer and conductor Benjamin Britten wrote two serious operas in the form of Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia, he decided to turn his hand to comedy. The result was Albert ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Raise a cheer for Benjamin Britten. Faced with the challenge of performing opera in an austerity-stricken ...

A new trade body representing the UK’s opera sector – UK Opera Association (UKOA) – launches today, bringing togetheropera companies to strengthen the future of opera and ensure the art form continues ...

Arts Council England won itself many new enemies when, in 2022, it announced that, for English National Opera to keep its £12million grant, it would have to move to Manchester – as as if to say, ...

The first performance, Britten's 'The Rape of Lucretia,' will take place on Friday, October 17 at 7.30pm. This chamber opera, written after the conclusion of the Second World War, tells the story of ...