Mounting an opera has never been easy. Rudolf Bing, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972, once offered this observation: “To make successful opera in New York you do ‘Carmen ...

The Mewgenics boss called Boris forms a big hurdle to overcome in The Sewers. Despite his size, he's a highly mobile enemy who can move from one end of the arena to the other, thereby crushing every ...

Back in November, Washington National Opera artistic director Francesca Zambello figured out exactly how she would blow up the opera company’s 44-year relationship with the John F. Kennedy Center for ...

If only European generals had possessed the tactical skills of Opera Orlando’s leaders, perhaps World War I might have been a shorter and less bloody affair. Opera Orlando waited until it felt the ...

Everett Baumgarten in the title role of Rachel Portman's "The Little Prince," in a Feb. 2 dress rehearsal for a Dallas Opera production at the Winspear Opera House. A Pilot crash-lands in the Sahara, ...

The Metropolitan Opera has been making headlines lately — for all the wrong reasons. It’s not that the country’s oldest continuously operating opera company is seeing revived relevance and eager ...

Houston Grand Opera has won a Grammy Award for the Best Opera Recording, it was announced Sunday night. The winner, Intelligence, was the first Grammy nomination for HGO in more than 35 years and the ...

The opera, created by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, in collaboration with director and choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, tells the story of Civil War-era spies Mary Jane Bowser, ...

Mr. Scorca served as the president and chief executive of Opera America, a service organization, from 1990 to 2025. When the Washington National Opera announced its decision to leave the Kennedy ...

The coronation bells are swift and brutal, appropriate since the crowned Boris is trouble at beginning and end of the scene by visions of the heir to the throne with spinning top he had murdered.