Even frivolous fictional characters have found a convenient whipping boy in the youngest son of J. S. Bach. The late, lamented Dr. Peter Schickele’s send-up biography of P.D.Q. Bach quips that the ...

The city where the young Mozart spent a year in the 1760s was also home to “the London Bach” – Johann Christian. Mozart held him and his music in the highest regard, so why have Londoners heard so ...

Royal Opera House; Queen Elizabeth Hall; St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Hot-blooded double bill Cav and Pag hits home in a fine Royal Opera revival, while the OAE and the Sixteen thrill in seasonal ...

On Site Opera, New York's pioneering opera company rooted in site-specific opera experiences, is thrilled to announce its upcoming production of The Immersive Coffee Cantata Experience—a reimagining ...

Set on the banks of Merri Creek in 1990s suburban Melbourne, is a chamber opera very close to home. Based on the original novella by one of Australia’s most cherished writers Helen Garner, The ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mary Phillips got her start, albeit a brief one, as an actor. She attended Rhode Island College back in the 1980s, when there was no musical theater major, just acting and singing.

Though Johann Sebastian Bach never wrote an opera, many hear his two settings of the Passion, the tale of Christ’s last days, as evidence that he would have mastered opera just as he did every other ...

A surprisingly metal piano arrangement of the main theme from The Phantom of the Opera, with Bach’s concerto in D minor… AyseDeniz, a Turkish classical pianist, has mixed the menacing theme from The ...