NEW YORK — Steve Smith, writing in The New York Times a few years ago, called “Here Be Sirens,” an opera by Kate Soper, “brainy, baffling, consistently astounding.” Alex Ross, in The New Yorker last ...

For pure hair-raising horror, there’s not much to beat Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Except, perhaps, for Verdi’s version of it. The Italian composer had a lifelong love of the Englishman’s plays, making ...

No one has ever been able to explain exactly why Richard Wagner had such a shuddering impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, to the point where he became the subject of a somewhat ...

Operas is a medium built for sweeping tales and grand emotion. This fall, the LA Opera — partnering with Beth Morrison Projects — presents the world premiere of “Hildegard,” running at The Wallis from ...

George Benjamin’s Written On Skin stars Christopher Purves and Barbara Hannigan (Picture: Katie Mitchell/Stephen Cummiskey) Based on a medieval ballad, George Benjamin’s new opera shows an ...

There’s an eclectic mix of musical offerings this week — Medieval, Opera, Art Song — as well as chamber and orchestral performances and a couple of premieres. On Friday May 20 at 7:00 pm at St. Paul’s ...

Wagner called his last opera, Parsifal, a Bühnenweihfestspiel, which scarcely become any more intelligible when translated into English: Stage Consecration Festival Play. For anyone trying to follow ...