The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s final work is an immersive, astonishing achievement, viscerally depicting a group of ...

Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence,” a powerful and kaleidoscopic depiction of mass violence and its aftermath, has arrived at the ...

So I shouldn’t be troubled by the way the late Kaija Saariaho turned a fictional school shooting into a work of modernist ...

Just as Butterfly is trapped with little agency in this opera, we as Asian Americans have been trapped by many of the ...

San Diegans may think they know the opera “Carmen,” but the San Diego Opera production of Georges Bizet’s tragedy that opened ...

Tamerlano, tyrannical Emperor of the Tartars, is a burger-munching boor with a golf-habit, a bulbous belly and a crashing ...

This is a visionary and essential new work, a seminal and remarkable achievement of storytelling, music, and dance.

In this visually stunning production about the famed Mexican painters, the opera is built on the idea of the dead being able ...

This summer’s Santa Fe Opera season, which runs through Aug. 23, skews toward standard repertoire, but there were surprises within that narrow compass. Director Melly Still gave Wagner’s “Die Walküre” ...

NORTHAMPTON — As I walked and whistled out of the Academy of Music on Nov. 9, Able Seaman Paul Peelle — still made up for the stage and dressed in stripes of white and Royal Navy blue — reminded me of ...

Celebrating its 10th anniversary season, On Site Opera gave its audiences a present: The lively, fun-filled GIANNI SCHICCHI--the only comedy in Puccini’s trifecta, IL TRITTICO, which had its world ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — He comes here every day, to gather wood. Axe in hand, the woodcutter (baritone Geoffrey Schmelzer) sang as much when he introduced “In A Grove” with see-sawing modulation, ...