Claus Guth’s entertaining and often sexy new staging of Handel’s opera-oratorio hybrid in Munich is a coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera.
Category: Opera
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“The Greek Passion” Takes Center Stage at the Salzburg Festival
Bohuslav Martinu’s “Greek Passion” poses a timeless question: when a group of refugees seek protection in a new community, what will the locals do?
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The Baritone Andrè Schuen Performs at the Salzburg Festival
Andrè Schuen stars as Count Almaviva in the Salzburg Festival’s new production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro.”
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Apocalypse Nowish: An Octavia Butler Opera May Be Prophetic
Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon adapted Butler’s dystopian “Parable of the Sower.” Their opera makes its New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City.
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The Ups and Downs of the Aix-en-Provence Festival
Not everything was an artistic or audience success at the 75th Aix-en-Provence Festival in France. But everything was worth discussing.
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At the Aix Festival, Premieres in Pursuit of Happiness
Two works at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, by two inventive partnerships in opera, use fables to explore grief and queer utopian dreams.
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An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness
George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, who collaborated on modern successes including “Written on Skin,” return with the one-act “Picture a Day Like This.”
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Jakub Hrusa, the Royal Opera’s Next Leader, Keeps Quality in Mind
“I don’t want to exclude anything,” says the Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa, who plans to present Czech music alongside mainstream repertoire in London.
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Female Singers Shine in Royal Opera’s ‘Don Carlo’
In a Verdi revival at the Royal Opera, two top female singers are discovering, and rediscovering, characters from a real-life royal love triangle.
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London Tours on Opera and Classical Music Offer Looks Behind the Curtain
Fans of music from centuries past will find a wide variety of experiences and collections. One even comes with a side of rock ’n’ roll.
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A Queer Revolutionary Classic Book, Now Onstage With Music
Philip Venables and Ted Huffman’s latest work adapts a utopian, fantasy cult favorite by Larry Mitchell.