The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” directed by Charles Edwards, is “a retro move,” said Peter ...

Yuval Sharon will leave the financially strained Detroit Opera after this season. In March, he brings his unorthodox vision ...

Andrei Serban’s 40-year-old production is confidently revived by Jack Furness, while the vocal richness of the Russian soprano as its eponymous heroine takes things to another level When the Royal ...

With intriguing glimpses of vulnerability, there has been none better in this production since it was first mounted more than four decades ago ...

Anna Netrebko is back, briefly. The star soprano, whose links to Russia have made her a controversial booking in some international opera houses, came back to the Royal Opera this autumn in a highly ...

IN a desperate ploy to lengthen his tyrannical reign, paranoid pariah Vladimir Putin is thrusting a wave of Kremlin-loving puppets into the limelight. His army of propaganda-spewing celebrities ...

MILAN — La Scala opened its new season on Sunday with Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, an opera promoting women’s rights that was once banned in Russia. The ...

Shostakovich opera opens 2025-26 season in Milan Opening performance sold out, tickets costing up to 3,200 euros Director says politics and culture should be kept separate MILAN, Dec 7 (Reuters) - La ...

MILAN (AP) — Milan’s storied Teatro alla Scala celebrates its gala season premiere Sunday with a Russian opera for the second time since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But this year, instead of ...