MusikTheater an der Wien will stage Pablo Luna’s “Benamor,” a rarely seen example of the Spanish zarzuela genre from the Roaring Twenties in Madrid.
Category: Opera
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Miracle on 64th Street: Options for Holiday Opera
Usually, holiday opera is scarce on major stages in New York. But this year, there are two at Lincoln Center alone.
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Review: ‘The Seasons’ Jumbles Warnings About Climate Crisis
An operatic Vivaldi pastiche, with a new story by Sarah Ruhl, offers an ambivalent message about how art can make people pay attention.
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The Met Opera’s Leaner ‘Magic Flute’ Courts Young Listeners
Julie Taymor’s abridged production of Mozart’s opera has been trimmed down to 90 minutes as the Metropolitan Opera bids to recruit a new generation.
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Berg’s ‘Wozzeck’ Keeps Shocking Us, After 100 Years
Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” which premiered in the shadow of World War I, will break your heart with a score that captures the essence of opera.
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41 Things That Stuck With Us in 2025
Aunt Gladys. Tyler, the Creator. That sex scene in “The Naked Gun.” These are the things Culture staffers couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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From ‘Spaghetti Western’ Scores to the Opera Stage
Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t such a drawback.
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Donald McIntyre, 91, Dies; Starred in New Vision of Wagner’s Operas
As Wotan in Patrice Chéreau’s neo-Marxist staging of the “Ring” cycle, he was part of a celebrated, polarizing moment in opera history.
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Jubilant Sykes, Celebrated Opera Singer, Is Stabbed to Death
After the police found the Grammy-nominated performer in his home with fatal wounds, his son was taken into custody, the authorities said.
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Review: It’s Hard to Breathe in This ‘Walküre’
The singers did marvelous work at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, where the director Calixto Bieito’s new staging takes place in a hellish dystopia.