One thing I firmly believe about my job is simply this: if you're going to dish it out, as I occasionally do, you have to be able to take it. In putting together my ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Inspired by Elizabethan drama, this new opera considers what space, if any, ...

The opera's opening performance was less than 24 hours away, yet the cast sometimes hesitated with lines and fumbled stage directions. "You guys have done a crazy amount of work. It's super-impressive ...

Author Samuel Johnson defined opera as an exotic and irrational entertainment. But to someone charged with raising money to keep opera alive in a recession economy, it is something else again. As one ...

This is an opera built on the sliding panels of elision, metaphor and metonymy – a shifting world where a kiss can be a betrayal, and a caress a murder, where taking away a man’s name or his crown can ...

Opera is a spectacle that can be glorious and delightful or a painful bore depending on how you approach it and how much background you have to appreciate it. Larry Mantle talks with opera and music ...

"It's nothing to do with loving a man," government prosecutor Mortimer screams at King Edward II at the beginning of George Benjamin's third opera, "Lessons in Love and Violence." He pays heavily for ...

Sure, times are bad. I myself am wondering how much the stimulus package will stimulate food onto my table. But the only way to get through tough times is to laugh. Which is why I go to the opera. You ...

When the $92 million Ellie Caulkins Opera House debuted in September 2005 at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, reactions were mixed. While opera and ballet performers and audiences were delighted to ...

Things really haven't changed much for music teachers during the past 300 years. Kids still cut up in class. Notes are sometimes difficult to learn. And performing music is always worthwhile — for ...