Nilsson may be the most demure Aida ever to grace the Met stage. Her simple sheath instantly marks her as an outsider, but ...

The opera, which marries the music of Antonio Vivaldi with a new libretto by Sarah Ruhl, was still on solid ground musically ...

The Metropolitan Opera ended its annual winter hiatus with two productions that chronicle their protagonists’ dangerous, ...

There are fewer settings more grand, more exotic, more regal and opulent than ancient Egypt. So when Giuseppe Verdi, one of ...

You now have four great recordings of high-quality singing and you have a list of opera singers to explore. The singers are ...

Michael Mayes leads the cast as Macbeth, the Scottish general who becomes king after murdering the reigning monarch. Mayes is a villain with a velvet-smooth baritone — his big Act IV aria was ...

Giuseppe Verdi pulled his opera ‘Stiffelio’ after its premiere because of censorship. It took more than 100 years before it returned to the stage.

Sarasota Opera will open Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro this month. There will be seven performances of the ...

The Met's unforgettable production of Verdi's ancient Egyptian drama stars Liudmyla Monastyrska and Hui He. They share the title role of the enslaved Ethiopian princess caught in a love triangle ...

The two concerts will feature some of opera's most iconic showstoppers, including famous arias and ensembles from Puccini's beloved Tosca and Verdi's masterpieces Aida and Rigoletto. Guest ...

Captain America stays at number one for the second consecutive weekend, followed by the big new release, Oz Perkins' horror-comedy The Monkey in second place. It's a lighter weekend for new ...

Indeed, it was announced that "one of the ambitions of Mr. Fontana’s life is to hear the opera ‘Aida’ sung in the ... of women performing their arias," Caplan said in a recent interview.