During the beginning of the last century New Orleans was the center of the opera universe. Duane Park drew inspiration from there for their new Thursday night series, Theatre d'Orleans.
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment
From Tchaikovsky to Broadway, Butterfly to Frankie Valli and Shalom, Toronto is truly alive with The Sound of Music!
Christina Patterson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment
That Roberto Alagna gives, through the miracle of his voice, a great deal of happiness is not in doubt. Nor, I think, is the price of it.
David Finkle | Posted 10.11.2009 | Entertainment
What occurs to me about the booing is that it might begin to color attitudes towards the Met under Peter Gelb for whom this 2009-10 season is the first with no vestigial ties to Joseph Volpe.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York
"In opera after the first night you don't know what will happen; it's a moveable feast!"
Christina Patterson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment
Opera's leading director is frequently described as a genius, but rarely escapes the label of "enfant terrible" and "angry young man."
Ivan Katz | Posted 09.27.2009 | Entertainment
In Seattle, as in Bayreuth, Germany, you get your Wagner in a highly concentrated dose. Woodstock for Wagnerians... without the mud.
AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
LONDON — It probably won't be "Madame Butterfly," but it should be fun. In an effort to get more people involved with opera, which sometimes su...
David Finkle | Posted 08.14.2009 | New York
My question, then, is: Whom are the presenters doing a favor by offering these recitals? Opera lovers will know they aren't hearing singing done under the proper conditions.
nytimes.com | ROBIN POGREBIN | Posted 07.19.2009 | New York
In this difficult economy, the New York City Opera is having a difficult time keeping its doors open....
Ivan Katz | Posted 07.11.2009 | Entertainment
This opera was a half hour of New Age-ish music accompanied by twenty-three smells, twenty-four if you count the guy sitting next to you.
Brian Dickie | Posted 07.02.2009 | Chicago
Apparently the excellent Chicago Opera Vanguard has lost out on a sponsor because of the frequent use of a commonly used word beginning with "F." Really?
Jane Levere | Posted 06.28.2009 | Entertainment
The audience at the Guggenheim will sit in seats outfitted with "scent microphones" that direct scents at each audience member while music supports the scents by helping them "sound".
Merrill Markoe | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
First you have to understand that it is the grandiosity of Mr. Kim's narcissistic disorder out of which his unyielding nuclear testing stance is born.
Jonathan Tolins | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment
The world of opera is a mirror image of the Susan Boyle circus. Serious fans regard good-looking singers with suspicion, fearing gorgeous looks are becoming more important than gorgeous singing.
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment
Director Bartlett Sher's revival of August Wilson's magnificent play Joe Turner's Come and Gone has just opened on Broadway to rave reviews.
Brian Dickie | Posted 04.27.2009 | Chicago
These are difficult times so we have much to do other than producing good opera.
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 04.16.2009 | Entertainment
The Metropolitan Opera celebrated with a 125th anniversary gala at Lincoln Center in New York on Sunday night. Among the stars who got all dressed up...
Brian Dickie | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
A show is employment for a large number of artists and crafts people. So the stimulus package's tiddly $50M for the arts can be put to work with disproportionate effect.
Brian Dickie | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago
Having a week off at this time of the year is a good refresher there is no doubt. But of course it means that on return there is a bundle to do. But...
Brian Dickie | Posted 03.19.2009 | Chicago
There is nothing more exhilarating than being transported from this stressed out world to the complete knockout world of "real opera."
Brian Dickie | Posted 03.12.2009 | Chicago
There is some irony in Senator Coburn's stimulus bill amendment. His daughter is a fine opera singer and though she is unlikely to suffer, many of her colleagues will as opera companies cut back.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
We need to invest in multi-dimensional human beings. We need to show that the country cares about culture.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
Whatever you believe about Bill Ayers and the Weathermen, the fact remains that he is not running for president. But John McCain doesn't really have any other arrows left in his quiver.
Vicky Ward | Posted 10.30.2008 | Style
There's no doubt that in New York "friendship" is a fickle term. As long as you are king, you will courted; when you are down and out, you are dumped.
Alex Geana | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York