Joana Mallwitz, one of Germany’s fastest rising stars, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in “The Marriage of Figaro” on Monday.

It’s the Metropolitan Opera premiere of the 2010 adaptation of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic story. Composer Jake Heggie did the music, collaborating with librettist Gene Scheer on ...

Billy Corgan, the bold rocker of Smashing Pumpkins fame, is entering his opera era. Corgan will stage a world-premiere show at Lyric Opera of Chicago in November. The new project, announced ...

The Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation into suspended Reform MP Rupert Lowe. It comes after the party revealed they had referred him to police and stripped him of the whip on Friday ...

Western security officials said Russian President Vladimir Putin has no intention to compromise on demands on land, peacekeepers and Ukraine’s neutrality in any peace talks, complicating ...

The Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services (MET) says Malawians are still in danger after Cyclone Jude made a landfall in Mozambique yesterday but with minimal impact on Malawi as of ...

It never rains but it drizzles briefly. The approach to the Reigart Stadium, once known as Cliftonhill, is made under a warming sun with only a fleeting touch of rain as if to remind one that this ...

Jürgen Flimm's 25-year-old production of Beethoven's Fidelio has returned to the Met for five performances ... who generated plenty of heat from there until the opera’s close. Her Florestan, David ...

Opera Parallèle gave a moving world premiere of David Hanlon's The Pigeon Keeper (pictured, photograph by Stefan Cohen) at Cowell Theater in San Francisco last night. The piece was prepared ...

It has been 20 years since Sarasota Opera last presented Giuseppe Verdi’s “Stiffelio” as part of its 28-year Verdi Cycle of performing just about every note written by the composer.

The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director mounting a production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” that increasingly reflects her childhood trauma, to the confusion of Jeanine’s cast ...