Susie Sainsbury theatre; Royal Festival Hall; St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Pegasus Opera sparks change with a tart two-hander and a woman on the edge; teenage brass players show their mettle; and ...

Composer Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)” may be 373 years old but it is nearly as action-packed as a Tarantino flick. The story about the tyrannical Roman ...

Tosca is an opera of geometric precision. Its three acts take place at the points of a triangle in the center of Rome—a church, a palace, and a prison, each a short walk from the other. The dating is ...

As his mother, Kate McGarrigle, faced her final days in January, 2010, Rufus Wainwright played his latest composition for her at the family piano. But it wasn't a pop song. It was the overture to an ...

Short as Roman emperor Eliogabalo’s reign was, the world sighed in relief when it was over. I felt the same way about Gotham Chamber Opera’s performance Friday of Francesco Cavalli’s “Eliogabalo.” It ...

The artist and activist Ai Weiwei says that his new production of Giacomo Puccini’s classic opera Turandot (1926), due to open next year in Italy, will refer to the deepening political crisis in Hong ...

New York audiences, last month, got a brief taste of "Roman Fever," the second Wharton-inspired opera from librettist Joan ...