Milan’s famed opera house is cracking down on the underdressed, even as it and other European opera companies try to attract a wider audience. By Amelia Nierenberg This was featured in live coverage.

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Bogdan Roscic and Lotte de Beer are shaking the dust off Vienna’s two biggest repertory companies. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Vienna In a rehearsal studio built on the grounds of old military ...

A portmanteau of Otto Wagner visuals and works of his Viennese Secession friends, the Vienna State Opera’s Parsifal is often gorgeous to look at, and offers nothing to remember, except that vague ...

Kate Lindsey as Orlando in Olga Neuwirth's Orlando. (c) Wiener Staatsoper / Michael Pöhn The titular character of the genre and gender-bending, time-traveling and era-encompassing Orlando - from ...

There was a buzz in the lobby of the opera house and scalpers galore outside the doors to the ticket office for soprano Asmik Grigorian’s recent sell-out concert at the Vienna State Opera. Clearly, it ...

In German, it's called the Wiener Staatsoper. In English, it's Vienna State Opera. This is one of world's most legendary opera houses. and with 1,709 seats, and room for 567 more standing, it's also ...

Mimi Coertse, who sang the Queen of the Night more than 500 times on the world’s greatest stages, has died aged ...

As strict anti-Coronavirus regulations go into effect severely limiting social gatherings, opera and classical music lovers will have to forsake Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall for the safety of ...

Children at Vienna’s prestigious ballet academy were routinely humiliated and told to smoke in order to stay slim, an investigation has alleged. A government-backed commission found that the welfare ...

“Who does Crimea belong to?” asked a Ukrainian-language sign held by a protestor outside the Vienna State Opera on a balmy June evening. Moments later, despite a small demonstration that diffident ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Don't miss the landmark Secession Building, just a short walk from the Vienna State Opera. Head down to the basement to see Klimt's amazing "Beethoven Frieze," while listening ...