For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and lively music ...

Palm Beach Opera will conclude its 2025 season with Mozart's lively and beloved The Marriage of Figaro, running April 4-6 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. "As we close our 2025 season, ...

The Los Angeles Opera will present a live simulcast of its opening night of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 23, in high-definition video from nine cameras at the Dorothy ...

When it comes to Mozart’s opera "The Marriage of Figaro," Adam Plachetka has sung both of its leading male roles: Figaro and Count Almaviva. And when the Czech bass-baritone finishes his three-day run ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The first time Austrian theater and opera director Nikolaus Habjan heard “The Magic Flute,” at age 4, he was smitten, transfixed. He was a busy, restless child, but when he ...

Almost every opera lover agrees, Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” is among the finest. Opera librettist E.T.A. Hoffmann called it “the opera of all operas”. Michigan State University Opera Theater will be ...

Director Melanie Helton’s key to MSU Opera Theatre's production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is bold color. As she has studied the opera, Helton said she feels the opera’s themes of good and evil, ...

So, what is a “companion,” anyway? Less than a friend, more than a sidekick, something of a teacher, but good company through thick and thin, Mary Hunter’s companion book to Mozart’s operas makes good ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. At this point there is little to be said about the current Mozart celebrations. Lincoln Center is doing all—every ...

San Francisco Opera will open its upcoming season with Verdi’s stirring political drama “Simon Boccanegra,” signaling an invitation to gather in the opera house’s unifying space to celebrate stories ...

Pianist Paul Orgel has performed and recorded music of many composers but, for him, it always comes back to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). “I loved his music at a very early age, and ...