NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover. Five ...

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Marshall Pynkoski, co-artistic director of Toronto's Opera Atelier, is fond of quoting Jean Cocteau on the question of style in art. In so many words, Cocteau said that style is something you aim with ...

Medea, in all its forms, is a divorce story intimately concerned with the ways past relationships haunt present ones, how this haunting is infected by patriarchy and its anxieties, and how that same ...

Recent interest in Medea operas began somewhat before Callas-centenary fever broke out when the Metropolitan Opera opened last season with Sondra Radvanovsky starring in its first-ever mounting of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Met’s first production of Cherubini’s work, in the Italian version, opens the season. The soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is aware of the pressure. The soprano Sondra Radvanovsky ...

No fewer than eight operas (and an almost equal number of plays) have staged her story, but have any really got to grips with the psychology of tragedy’s wickedest witch? I’m afraid that Georg Benda’s ...

For several years now I have been hearing of the wildly creative doings coming from Opera Long Beach under the direction of Andreas Mitisek; operas in swimming pools, drag queens in Threepenny Opera, ...

The ENO’s UK premiere of Charpentier’s Medea is a wonderful mix of new and old — refined but robust, simple yet extravagant. For regular opera goers, this may not be in line with the usual, but for ...