3 Ways Operas Speak to the Moment, With Success and Failure
New works, “The Post Office” and “Constance: A Confession,” and a revival of Barber’s “Vanessa” show companies attempting to capture these nebulous times.
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New works, “The Post Office” and “Constance: A Confession,” and a revival of Barber’s “Vanessa” show companies attempting to capture these nebulous times.
Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, a premiere by Ellen Reid and a multitasking performance by Barbara Hannigan are among the highlights.
As part of its Toronto Opera Festival, Opera 5 presented the premiere of Parбё—lios on June 12, a new work by composer Cecilia Livingston and librettist Duncan McFarlane. It is an...
The new opera, composed and directed by Timothy Nelson, is complex, cerebral, and honest. By ZOE WINSKY
Brett Dean's Of One Blood casts a well-trodden Tudor tale in a poignant, new light.
Victoria, BC – Pacific Opera Victoria’s 2026/27 season brings epic romance, giant-puppet fantasy, and magical Mozartian adventure to Victoria audiences with three beloved operas th...
Matthew Travisano has such doubts about Douglas Cuomo's opera recently seen at Opera Parallèle.
Anthony Roth Costanzo took over Opera Philadelphia when it was “three weeks away from stopping payroll.” Now, it is rebounding with a surplus.
Madison Schindele surveys the endlessly diverse offerings of Berlin's 2026-27 opera season.
Ahead of his new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Barrie Kosky chats with Kevin Ng in Aix about pretty much everything — except the details of his new Frau.
Samuel Barber’s 1958 opera was in disrepute for decades. A remarkable new production is the latest evidence of its rightful resurgence.
Few opera houses today can rival Bayerische Staatsoper for the consistency of its musical standards. Within the span of a single season, one can encounter radically different conce...
New opera drawn from South Asian literature to premiere in June with performances in DC and Baltimore.
Constance: A Confession, presented in Brooklyn by Experiments in Opera, satirizes our digital age with style.
Bampton Classical Opera is set to stage André Grétry's 'Beauty and the Beast'
Review of Constance: A Confession, a new multi-author opera created by the “Writers’ Room” of the Experiments in Opera company; viewed May 18, 2026, with further performances havin...
An early summer visit to Volksoper Wien reaffirmed why it remains one of Europe’s most imaginative lyric theatres. Few companies today show comparable confidence in programming, mo...
The Cleveland Orchestra’s recent performances of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” join concerts that fill a gap in American opera.
Three recent productions at the Vienna State Opera (VSO) repeatedly demonstrated that first-rate conducting and singing could transcend even the most contentious directorial concep...
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis does its best to give magic in its summer productions of Roméo et Juliette and A Streetcar Named Desired.
The Greek National Opera’s 2026-27 season turns toward landmark works, tracing a path from Monteverdi’s “L‘Orfeo” to Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” and Beethoven’s “Missa solem...
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The Paris Opera production of “Ercole Amante” (“Hercules in Love”), a rediscovered 1707 work by the female composer Antonia Bembo, leans into contemporary themes of coercion and co...
Iain Bell and Lydia Steier's Medusa stuns in Brussels.
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