“If you want to experience contemporary opera at its most compelling, harrowing and intensely delivered”, said Richard Morrison in The Times, go and see English National Opera’s “stunning” new ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Met is approaching prepandemic levels of attendance. But its strategy of staging more modern operas to lure new audiences is having mixed success.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes six new productions and modern works by Mason Bates, Kaija Saariaho and Gabriela Lena Frank.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – When it comes to globally-renowned Italian “popera” trio Il Volo, everything old is new again. The trio’s soaring vocals and modern take on classical-crossover music is breathing new ...

Read our review of *Last Days*, starring Jake Dunn, now in performances at the Royal Opera House to 3 January 2026. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

San Diego Opera won’t be announcing its next season until May, but two of the city’s smaller companies — Opera Neo and newly formed Opera a la Carte San Diego — have unveiled their upcoming plans, and ...

Yinka Shonibare CBE, Addio del Passato Film Still 3, (2011), digital chromogenic print, 50 x 71 in. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York. SITE Santa Fe presents Bel Canto: ...

Much of the attention in contemporary opera is drawn by U.S., English or German composers: Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Hans Werner Henze, Werner Egk. But Italy, opera’s birthplace, still produces ...

A familiar wooden puppet takes on new life this weekend as Boulder Opera presents Jonathan Dove's operatic adaptation of "The Adventures of Pinocchio" at eTown Hall. The production offers a fresh take ...

“I hope nobody hates music critics,” muttered one nervous music critic last week in Santa Fe, N. Mex. “If they dropped a bomb on this place, they’d wipe out every last one of us.” The critics had ...