A luxury cast and simple but effective stagecraft made “Ariodante” the company’s strongest opera in recent years.

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 Seville” and ...

R.B. Schlather’s vibrant staging of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare,” playing in the Hudson Valley, is a bright spot in a bleak ...

Bass baritone Douglas Ray Williams relied on over-played masculine bluster as Achilla. In the role of Tolomeo, countertenor ...

Teatro Real presented a new production by Claus Guth of the unknown and rarely performed Mozart opera: “Mitridate ... accompagnato with piano forte and with orchestra) and da capo arias, which repeat ...

The release of “I Lituani” by Accentus Music is a revelatory achievement. Premiered in 1874, the opera presents itself as a medieval-themed “Aida,” complete with a triumphal ballet and a somewhat ...

Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD ... opera world. It’s another week of many releases, including new complete opera recordings, solo albums, oratorios, and sacred works. A long-lost ...

The accompanying booklet makes a compelling case; yet for all its novelty, the opera is a very rough gem. Notably, its austerity – its economy of means – prevents it from being on par with, for ...

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — Former Costa Rica President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias says the U.S. government’s unexplained cancelation of his visa won’t stop his public criticism.

It’s the first work that translates best to the stage. Director Thomas Guthrie gives us a power-dressed Apollo, a master of the universe straight out of the City some 50 years ago, who, despite the ...

Jaws of success: the new robotic gripper based on ant mandibles could use used in environmental clean-up as well as in construction and agriculture (courtesy: iStock) Researchers at the University of ...

The Handel + Haydn Society (H + H ... worked as a reporter for Latin Post where he interviewed major opera stars, Oscar nominees, Golden Globe winners and film industry giants. David holds a Masters ...