Great is Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, ...

Kentucky Opera announces its 23/24 season. All four operas will be sung in English, with performances in The Brown Theatre and the Opera Center. Appearing on the Kentucky Opera stage for the first ...

A good, singable English translation (from the original French) has been in existence since 1981, created by renowned lyricist Sheldon Harnick for the Houston Grand Opera.

In continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, ...

Bleak and bitter, but shot through with pathos and comic irony, Shostakovich’s 1932 opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, is a lacerating work. This powerful semi-staging, combining forces ...

English National Opera lost its government subsidy, and the Royal Opera House received a 10-percent cut, with funding diverted to organizations outside London.

Aside from the question of whether it ought to be given at all, the most perennial of all operatic controversies is whether opera ought to be given in English. It may not be quite true that the ...

English National Opera lost its government subsidy, and the Royal Opera House received a 10-percent cut, with funding diverted to organizations outside London.

English National Opera's Tristan and Isolde at the Coliseum - besides being good - confirms one important point: the value of opera in English.

Summary "Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera ...

The opera is an adaptation of Kao Kalia Yang’s book about her father, who would wander from village to village, collecting stories and turning them into song.

The English National Opera is facing upheaval after its music director quit suddenly over proposed funding cuts. Martyn Brabbins announced his resignation on Sunday, saying proposals by management ...