From ‘Hamnet’ to ‘Wuthering Heights,’ the big screen has seen a wave of literary classics reimagined for a new generation. But a problem persists: cinema and literature are languages that are almost a ...

Broadway is coming to Hollywood in a big way with seven L.A. premieres of hit shows during the new Pantages season ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Dido and Aeneas” is the first Opera Kansas production for executive director Zeffin Hollis, who was hired six months ago.

Opera Kansas is opening its 40th season by smashing stereotypes about the art form. Purcell’s “Dido & Aeneas” is staged for three performances next weekend at the Fisch Haus, in the Commerce Street ...

Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

Few operas have enjoyed such an enviable fate as Gounod's Faust. Well received at its premiere, followed by international success, which still makes it the most performed French opera in the world ...

Virginia Woolf, in her essay “The Lives of the Obscure,” savors the potential fascination of reading authors whom posterity has cast aside: “One likes romantically to feel oneself a deliverer ...

YOU may as well devote at least part of your summer to the study of English, for it appears that there will be not less than three associations presenting opera in that language in town next season.

5.0 out of 5.0 starsAfter a glorious opening night at Glyndebourne, it’s a pleasure to be back at the Royal Opera House for the stunning visual and musical feast that is the all-star 6th revival of ...

Heartbeat Opera’s radical adaptations of classic titles can soar or fall flat, but one constant has always been music director Dan Schlosberg, whose ingenious maverick arrangements—such as February’s ...