A new Met Opera production of "Tristan und Isolde" uses Wagner's rare wooden horn, the holztrompete, for a key offstage ...

A new Met Opera production of “Tristan und Isolde” uses Wagner’s rare wooden horn, the holztrompete, for a key offstage ...

Director Yuval Sharon’s company debut is an imaginative, expansive production headed by two top-flight singers, Lise Davidsen ...

At the end of the act, the audience let out an animal roar. You sometimes hear that in an opera house. And when you do, it’s thrilling. When Nézet-Séguin returned for Act II, he received a rapturous ...

Illona Linthwaite, an actress and grandmother, has just celebrated her 81st birthday and soon will be performing at the Royal Opera House — without any clothes on for most of th ...

Royal Opera's 'Siegfried' will be broadcast live at Mwldan, as-part-of a special event. The broadcast is on Tuesday, March 31, starting at 5.15pm. The performance lasts for around ...

Some composers have the rare gift of naivety. They don’t impress or stir us with complexity. They simply place a luminous chord here, a sad drooping phrase there, balanced with unerring rightness.

The pianist was electrifying in Rautavaara’s first concerto, while the young Finn conducted a condensed Ring with clever, slow-burn pacing ...

Eugen Weidmann met his death with his eyes tightly shut. The young German serial killer, whose gaze was said to be hypnotic ...

Reviews of a Metropolitan Opera performance of Richard Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” a Metropolitan Opera performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” and Emily Anderson’s “The Letters of Mozart and His ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Siegfried veers from acidic comedy to transformative devotion Opera flourishes: in spite of all the financial cutbacks, the UK’s ...

With Siegfried, staged in Calixto Bieito’s new production, the Paris Opera presents the third part of Richard Wagner’s extraordinary undertaking, the Ring of the Nibelung. Siegfried, the son of ...