When we meet the titular character in Gounod’s opera, he’s ready to end it all with a poison cocktail. Loneliness and age have gotten the better of him, and he calls out for the devil.

We're less easily shocked today. But watching Florentine Opera's new production of "Carmen," it's easy to see what startled its Parisian audience when Bizet's opera debuted in 1875. Carmen's ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Two Hampton Roads staples, the Virginia Opera and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, are scrambling to try to raise thousands of dollars after federal grant funding ...

SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. — A pillar of Sumter’s cultural and civic life for more than a century, the historic Sumter Opera House is set to close next month for extensive renovations. Built in 1895 ...

One husband found a way to keep his opera-loving wife happy after their decades-long tradition of attending the opera together came to an unexpected halt Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at ...

One question that arises from Minnesota Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”: how did such an inane story become so embedded in the consciousness of Western ...

They did so masterfully last night, thanks above all to Royal Opera Conductor Laureate Antonio Pappano’s close relationship with four remarkable Wagnerian principals and Barrie Kosky’s dark, spare but ...

In a vast studio at the Seattle Opera Center on a recent Monday evening, a glorious noise was heard. While rehearsing the end of Act I of the beloved Puccini opera “Tosca,” the voices of 46 ...

For its 61st season, San Diego Opera announced today a three-show season that will feel both familiar and inviting to audiences: Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” Rossini’s “The Barber of Sevil ...

The opera opens in the home of a doting but nervous married couple. They’re dressed casually — she in a pink nightgown, he in jeans and a flannel — but the mood is anything but.

On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his “Meme History” column. If you want to read columns like this a day before ...