opera review

NEW YORK—Gioachino Rossini’s 1823 opera “Semiramide” was highly popular in its day, but in the past century, performances have been few and far between. One reason may be that it ...

NEW YORK—Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) originally thought of calling his 1853 opera “The Gypsy,” but instead kept the title ...

NEW YORK—Based on Victorien Sardou’s play, a vehicle for Sarah Bernhardt, Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” is a melodrama of ...

NEW YORK—Although operetta is usually thought of as a 19th-century form, Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” (“Die Lustige ...

NEW YORK—American soprano Ailyn Pérez has made the transition from promising young artist and award winner—including the 2012 ...

NEW YORK—The death at age 54 of Anthony Minghella, the director of "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. ...

With the right cast, Bellini’s florid music of “I Puritani” makes for a compelling experience, and in the ...

Sir Richard Eyre’s production of Bizet’s “Carmen” manages to be colorful while eschewing kitsch.

Gioachino Rossini's 1816 comic opera "The Barber of Seville" has returned to the Metropolitan Opera in Bartlett Sher's ...

The rewards of this production of “Nabucco” are ample, as the audience applause and cheering confirmed.

This year, the Met brought back Julie Taymor's 2004 production of "The Magic Flute"--a stripped-down, 100-minute version of ...

NEW YORK—The Metropolitan Opera opened its fall season with a new production of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde." ...

Georges Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" is back at the Metropolitan Opera, where the work was last performed was ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Rigoletto” updates the action to 1960 Las Vegas, and the Duke is a ...

The Met is giving Sondra Radvanovsky the opportunity to sing all three Tudor queen roles, and she has ...

Joan of Arc (1412-1431), the peasant girl who led the French army against the British during the 100 ...

Jonas Kaufmann has certainly won the genetic sweepstakes. He has a unique tenor voice, powerful with a baritonal ...

Donizetti’s 1834 opera, based on Schiller’s play “Mary Stuart,” is about the conflict between Queen Elizabeth I and ...

“Turandot” was Puccini’s last opera, unfinished at his death and completed by Franco Alfano.

While men may be the warriors in the epic opera, women clearly dominate the Met's performance of Hector ...

Verdi’s librettist Antonio Somma based his script on an actual assassination at a masked ball.

Regicide seems the hot topic at the Metropolitan Opera this season.