With a new opera season starting, at least via streaming or tourism, it might be a good time to ask what opera is. Opera is like the movies. There’s the broad term of movies but within that are dozens ...

One of the world's most famous and romantic operas will open the Kentucky Opera's 2022-23 season this fall. Five performances of Giacomo Puccini’s "La bohème" will launch the 70th anniversary season ...

The introduction of American composer Samuel Barber’s riveting first opera, “Vanessa,” was marked by uncommon splendor: It had its premiere by the venerable Metropolitan Opera in January 1958, won a ...

Martha is a romantic comic opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow set to a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese and based on a story by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. Flotow had ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: The story revolves around Hanna Glawari (Holly Bewlay), a wealthy widow from the small Balkan state of Petrovenia where the government fears that if she marries a foreigner, her ...

There must be something in the air, with a couple of New York's small opera companies transporting 19th century German Romantic operas by Weber and Wagner to Texas within a couple of months, in search ...

Since 2012, Opera Australia has presented the romantic favourite on December 31 in the Joan Sutherland Theatre. This year, the company has attracted Kovalevska to appear as the heroine Mimi, a role ...