The sloe-eyed beauty who could charm the conqueror into giving her a kingdom—Cleopatra! It’s a tale that has long enthralled Western art and literature, involving as it does a powerful and exotic ...

The Houston Grand Opera has announced a 2017-18 season that blends treasured titles such as "La Traviata and "The Barber of Seville" with new adaptations of originally non-operatic works, including ...

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis makes a practice of reviving underperformed contemporary operas. This season’s example is Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002), a chamber piece that examines the ...

It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has ...

Opera aficianados who go to Opera Roanoke’s production of “Julius Caesar in Egypt” should not be one bit surprised to see a woman singing the part of the emporer of Rome.