If you take your seat early at the opera, normally there’s little else to do but thumb the program booklet or check out the sartorial choices of your fellow audience members. At Saturday evening’s ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is excited to introduce to you the unforgettable talent of Richard Strauss, a virtuoso German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. His endless imagination and ...

Known sensation Andris Nelsons and the much-anticipated Christina Goerke were much more likely to hit the mark. Which they mostly did, even if the total revelation lay elsewhere. Nelsons hits hard and ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Richard Strauss' twisted psychodrama, Elektra, returns to the COC stage ...

Grip-the-armrest drama. Heroic singing. And every possible nuance from a massive orchestra. That was opening night of the Dallas Opera’s Elektra Friday, at the Winspear Opera House. The company has ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Richard Strauss' 'Elektra,' with soprano Nina Stemme in the title role. The same production is being presented by the Dallas Opera, but with Marjorie Owens as ...

Even for longtime opera fans and experts, the first listen to Richard Strauss’ raw, intense “Elektra” is jolting. Case in point: Henrik Nánási, who makes his San Francisco Opera debut this weekend ...

Brian Staufenbiel is sitting in a rehearsal room at Minnesota Opera's North Loop base, grinning with boyish enthusiasm at the production paraphernalia around him. Clunking bits of scenery loom over ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...