Mortier looks to invigorate City Opera
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Gerard Mortier noted a coincidence when he was being courted to become boss of the New York City Opera.
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Like a beloved friend who faithfully comes to visit every few years, Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" has returned to the Metropolitan Opera, as welcome as ever even if beginning to show the effects of age.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's lavish musical Bombay Dreams could be staged in the Indian city which gave it its name.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs new strategy of plugging sudden holes in its casts with big names has its beneficiaries.
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The New York City Operaâs announcement this week that it had landed Gerard Mortier as its new leader was hailed as the beginning of a new era for the company.
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Lorin Maazel conducted a lucidly textured, rhythmically incisive and strongly conceived account of this touchstone opera.
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The San Francisco Opera on Tuesday announced its own plan to transmit operas to movie theaters using a system it says is superior to that of the Metropolitan Opera.
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In her Met debut, Julie Taymor brings puppetry, illusion and movement to her production of the Mozart opera.
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The Dallas Opera plans a world premiere of the opera "Moby Dick" as part of its first season in its new digs.
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The Estonian National Opera is on the eve of its centennial anniversary a ' and the staff can hardly wait.
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The seasonâs second program, a quadruple bill called âDance for Joy,â which opened on Thursday, is a reminder that City Ballet also leads the world in sheer quality of repertory.
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Opera is revolutionary. It thrills the elite and masses alike, bops to Indian drums and grooves to glass-shattering Wagnerian arias in a mosh pit filled with British rockers.
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Eighteen months after the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater announced an innovative commissioning project, few notes have been written. But the effort is gathering steam.
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Danteâs âDivine Comedy,â now playing as an opera, with a monsignor as director.
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A month before La Scala raises its  curtain after three years of renovation, the opera house is  still packed with hammering builders and busy decorators -- but  organizers say it will be alright on the night.
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By Chris Shull, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 1--In the summertime, opera unbuttons its collar and relaxes its stuffy image.   At park amphitheaters and bucolic outdoor venues, grand opera becomes grand entertainment, less potent theater and more a popular outing.
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Bruno Morettiâs music turns âOltremareâ into a theater piece both effective and evocative.