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, ...

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.

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 ...

Opera buffs expecting a traditional opera at the world premiere of Signor Goldoni were surprised with English. The opera marks the third centennial of the birth of one of Venice's favorite sons ...

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, ...

Some twenty years ago, Peking Opera was performed in English for the first time. And later, English transcripts were flashed on screens of traditional opera houses in Beijing.

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.

Peking Opera, long a cornerstone of Chinese traditional culture, will now be more accessible to foreign audiences via a new series of published English translations. A media briefing is held at ...