Susie Sainsbury theatre; Royal Festival Hall; St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Pegasus Opera sparks change with a tart two-hander and a woman on the edge; teenage brass players show their mettle; and ...

Rufus Wainwright is composing an opera based on the life of Emperor Hadrian. Working with actor, director and playwright Daniel MacIvor – who will write the libretto – the singer will premiere his ...

I recently saw a tv clip about a restaurant in Rome that featured opera singers performing on a stage within the restaurant. Can anyone give the name of this restaurant?

Tosca is an opera of geometric precision. Its three acts take place at the points of a triangle in the center of Rome—a church, a palace, and a prison, each a short walk from the other. The dating is ...

LENOX — There’s a lot to glean from Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever,” a 1934 short story getting new life as a one-act opera. “I really admire her storytelling techniques and her narratives,” said Joan ...

As his mother, Kate McGarrigle, faced her final days in January, 2010, Rufus Wainwright played his latest composition for her at the family piano. But it wasn't a pop song. It was the overture to an ...

The Arena di Verona Opera Festival opens this Friday, June 5 for the first of 50-plus nights this summer (June 5–Sep 12). Central to the 2026 offerings are six productions of classic Italian operas by ...

The artist and activist Ai Weiwei says that his new production of Giacomo Puccini’s classic opera Turandot (1926), due to open next year in Italy, will refer to the deepening political crisis in Hong ...