Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence,” one of the most important new operas of this century, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday in a superb performance. I have now seen it four times, ...

Despite its beauty and power, the Met’s Innocence had me wanting to run. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera For 400 years, opera’s business has been the aestheticization of pain. Wrenching loss, blinding ...

Conducted by Tomáš Hanus and directed by Dirk Schmeding, the production continues the company’s ongoing run of the opera, with performances scheduled throughout late March. The creative team also ...

'Gilgamesh: the Opera' was commissioned by the Assyrian Arts Institute; it runs March 28 and 29 at California’s Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Gilgamesh is not only the world’s oldest epic, ...

Opera has released its gaming-centric browser for Linux. With Opera GX, you get plenty of killer features for everyday use. Opera GX is free to install and use. I use a lot of web browsers. I ...

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San Diego Opera has today unveiled its 2026-27 season today with a lineup that includes three mainstage classics from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a 21st-century work that will revive ...

Now looming large at our own Virginia Opera, “Aida” is grand opera with an equally monumental history: in its origins, its past performances and its theatrical punch. This particular “Aida” is large ...

Palm Beach Opera will perform Verdi's "Rigoletto March 20-22 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The work is filled with well-know arias that may be familiar to those who have never seen the ...

On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart weighed in on Timothée Chalamet’s viral takedown of ballet and opera. “As you are well aware, a terrible war has been raging for two weeks now,” ...

Actor Timothée Chalamet got a strong response from the arts world when recently said opera and ballet are dying art forms. Operatic soprano Christine Goerke says it's the kind of disrespect opera and ...