Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars.

Retiring from opera has its own set of challenges, but there is plenty I share with the other millions of Americans ending ...

In the mid-1600s, opera transformed from a show exclusive for royalty to entertainment for the masses. Soon, lavish productions, special effects, and creative risks became the norm. Venice’s La Fenice ...

A new rehearsal video features soprano Lisette Oropesa performing an excerpt from Elvira’s Act II aria in I PURITANI. The ...

Carmen de Lavallade, the exquisite dancer who broke barriers throughout the arts during her six-decade performing career, has ...

Soprano Asmik Grigorian is to sing the title role in Georges Bizet's “Carmen,” a mezzo-soprano touchstone, for the first time at the Salzburg Festival this summer. Getting ready for a ...

The company’s overstuffed new staging of Bellini’s final work, set during the English Civil War, proves a marvelous vocal ...

This is a Bellini season at the Metropolitan Opera, which is both a welcome and complex proposition. The composer and his bel ...