For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte collaborating with...
Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasionally days after the experien...
Few shows have ever sparked the audience of the Festival d'Avignon so passionately. Miet Warlop, a 44-year-old Belgian artist, and her troupe brought ...
"If my dream might come true! An army of brave men, led by me – victory, and the applause of all Memphis! To return to you, my sweet Aida,
decked wit...
This season at the Opera Bastille nearly comes to its end with a refreshing production of Gioacchino Rossini’s opera buffa The Barber of Seville. Dire...
Alcina, written in 1735, is one of George Frideric Handel's more popular operas – he composed 42 of them. Inspired by Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furio...
Is 2022 the year the Comédie Française goes camp? With Sébastien Pouderoux and Stéphane Varupenne's new adaptation of Les Précieuses Ridicules, it see...
In Don Giovanni, Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte presented their famous hero as a sexual predator rather than a lover. A year earlier they ...
Michael Shell’s production of The Barber of Seville contains more farces than usual, perhaps an attempt of the Atlanta Opera to introduce some light i...