The Suddenly Popular Opera Ignored for Nearly 200 Years

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Alcina” is long, hard to sing — and irresistible to opera houses and ...

Opera Naples announces new season filled with concerts, beloved operas

Opera Naples has lined up some crowd-pleasers for its 2026-27 season, including two of the world’s most popular operas.

Soprano Brenda Rae flies in to replace Lauren Snouffer for Opera Philadelphia's opening night

PHILADELPHIA — Brenda Rae was driving with her husband and children from their home in Minneapolis to visit her father in ...

Opera a la Carte returns with rare Donizetti comedy ‘Viva la Mamma’

Donizetti is best known for his operas “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “The Elixir of Love” and “Don Pasquale.” The prolific Italian ...

Latest Opera update arrives with flipped vertical tabs, extension side panels, and macOS fixes

Opera 135 flips the vertical tabs layout to put new tabs up top. The desktop update also brings Chrome side panel extensions ...

Opera Is Like Soccer. Just Ask This Conductor.

Speranza Scappucci, the principal guest conductor at the Royal Opera House, has a busy season ahead of her, so she refuses to lose sight of what matters.

The Royal Opera’s ambitious new season opens with a powerful Don Giovanni

The Royal Opera’s new season is nothing if not ambitious. There are 10 new productions, including the unveiling of the final ...

In Opera Philadelphia’s ‘Mitridate’ you can catch a 14-year-old Mozart in the act of becoming great

Among the many risks taken by Opera Philadelphia over the past two years, none has been greater than the current production of Mitridate, re di Ponto — the quirk of it all being that such a risk is ...