As the houselights dim at the Metropolitan Opera, the Julie Taymor–directed The Magic Flute transports viewers into a buoyant and kaleidoscopic fairy-tale dreamworld. This abridged, English-language ...

The baroque composer's dark opera is making a rare return to the Royal Opera House. Tatler goes backstage to meet the ...

Director of Opera Dr. Vincent Graña said this year’s program challenges students to look more deeply into the works they ...

Xu Zhong (center), artistic director of Shanghai Opera House, at the rehearsal of the company's new production of Cosi fan tutte. The semi-staged production will be performed at Shangyin Opera House ...

Have you ever read one of those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books for children? Written in second person, they allow a reader to make decisions that change the direction of the plot, the next chapter ...

When Opera Atelier artistic directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg mounted Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in 1991, the naysayers and the financial burden could have sunk their company.

Amarillo Opera is presenting Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" for one night only on Saturday, Oct. 4. The opera, directed locally by Cynthia Stokes, tells a story of love, mischief, and forgiveness ...

Amarillo Opera is presenting Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" for one night only on Saturday, Oct. 4. The opera, directed locally by Cynthia Stokes, tells a story of love, mischief, and forgiveness ...

Pianist Paul Orgel has performed and recorded music of many composers but, for him, it always comes back to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). “I loved his music at a very early age, and ...

The Mississippi River made for a lovely summer backdrop for Mixed Precipitation’s first performance of “The Return of King Idomeneo” in the Twin Cities, mashing up Mozart’s 1781 opera “Idomeneo, re di ...

He sits squarely in front of us on the screen, a full-bodied man with a carefully trimmed white beard and a nearly bald head, his eyes looming behind dark-framed glasses—one eye glaring with cyclopean ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1781 masterpiece “Idomeneo,” his early ...