One of the world's most famous and romantic operas will open the Kentucky Opera's 2022-23 season this fall. Five performances of Giacomo Puccini’s "La bohème" will launch the 70th anniversary season ...

With a new opera season starting, at least via streaming or tourism, it might be a good time to ask what opera is. Opera is like the movies. There’s the broad term of movies but within that are dozens ...

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the ...

The introduction of American composer Samuel Barber’s riveting first opera, “Vanessa,” was marked by uncommon splendor: It had its premiere by the venerable Metropolitan Opera in January 1958, won a ...

When San Diego Opera opens Giacomo Puccini’s beloved romantic opera “Tosca” on March 25, soprano Michelle Bradley will be performing the role of Tosca for only the second time in her professional ...

Martha is a romantic comic opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow set to a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese and based on a story by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. Flotow had ...

On the BOF mainstage this year is a new production of Charles Gounod's FAUST, the story of tragedy and redemption that stands at the summit of French romantic opera. Surging with memorable and ...

“The Elixir of Love” is the comedic tale of two men vying for a woman’s love, although it isn’t a modern rom-com. It’s an opera originally performed in 1832. The Idaho Falls Opera Theatre will bring ...

Reasons you’re not going to hear this couple yell at one another. Daniela Mack and Aleks Shrader were in Seattle Opera’s “Beatrice and Benedict” in 2018. (Photo by Jacob F. Lucas) A.) They’re happily ...

Since 2012, Opera Australia has presented the romantic favourite on December 31 in the Joan Sutherland Theatre. This year, the company has attracted Kovalevska to appear as the heroine Mimi, a role ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: The story revolves around Hanna Glawari (Holly Bewlay), a wealthy widow from the small Balkan state of Petrovenia where the government fears that if she marries a foreigner, her ...