A review of Wagner’s “Parsifal” at the Metropolitan Opera, with Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior, a Town Hall recital by Povla Frijsh, and concerts by Sir Thomas Beecham.

MILAN—In the shadow of the Duomo, the Milan Cortina Winter Games are inescapable. A hulking glass-and-steel cubo olimpico plays home to international TV studios, while lines of tourists wait for ...

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 there’s any stage musical that can rest on its proverbial laurels, it’s “The Phantom of the Opera.” But even after more than 40 years, the most definitive work of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated ...

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale also do a lot of dancing, apparently, in the creature-feature romance hitting theaters March 6. Reading time 2 minutes When news about Maggie Gyllenhaal’s bold, punk ...

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 ...

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The proposed sale comes after a long list of measures enacted to stabilize the opera. The Metropolitan Opera’s financial precarity mounted during the pandemic, and since then, the institution has had ...

Christos Makridis is also a co-founder of Living Opera and the Living Opera Foundation and founder of CM Culture Management. He is also an affiliate and contributor to several think tank communities ...

Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know how you do it,” the tenor recently told BBC Radio 3. In the same interview, ...

Jan. 15 (UPI) --Warner Bros. released the trailer for The Bride! on Thursday. The film opens March 6. Maggie Gyllenhaal wrote and directed the adaptation of The Bride of Frankenstein. The trailer, set ...