To the great Weill interpreters she summoned at the start of her First person for theartsdesk, from Cathy Berberian to Tom ...

What do you get when you combine a masquerade mask, a pocket watch, an extraordinary amount of champagne, and the most ...

On Wednesday, the orchestra announced that trumpeter-composer and jazz icon Terence Blanchard will curate the 2026 event, ...

Thirty-five years ago, I visited Vienna on my first backpacking trip to Europe. I have a faint memory of touring the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Naturhistorisches Museum, Schönbrunn Palace, and ...

Orchestra is the star in a production of Beethoven’s prison opera that lacks tension People in glass houses, as the adage almost has it, shouldn’t mount operas. That’s the theory routinely disproved ...

This Fidelio, originally directed by John Cox and here faithfully revived by Jamie Manton, was the last of four superb productions in an outstanding year for this house. Sweltering in the heat, the ...

George Clooney's stage adaptation of his 2005 movie Good Night, and Good Luck just broke a Broadway record for highest box office earnings in seven days. Disney's Snow White reigns over weekend box ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” a timeless monument to love, life, and liberty, will be shown March 15 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish as part of The Met: Live in HD program. Sung in German with ...

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of ...

The lowest point is the highest point in Washington National Opera’s new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Deep in Pizarro’s dungeon, a woebegone Florestan — powerfully sung by tenor Jamez McCorkle ...

NEW YORK — When David Leigh sang “The Impossible Dream” at his father’s funeral, the moment was both a testament to his past and a harbinger of his future. Leigh, an operatic bass, is the son of Mitch ...