Opera buffa and opera seria are the tradition’s comic and tragic masks. Manitoba Opera’s 2025-26 season wears both — with ...

Every time Giacomo Puccini’s final masterpiece Turandot (1926) is staged, go see it. Even it only plays for one night, as it ...

Two instances, one involving an “avant-garde” program and the other a traditional one, provide counterpoints to Trump’s ...

In the Summer issue of Opera Now, we put a special focus on the next generation of opera singers. Making her name as a terrific Tosca on stages around the world, Welsh-Ukranian soprano Natalya Romaniw ...

Southwick Opera/SO Musical Theatre is marking 60 years at the Barn Theatre, Southwick, with a special performance, 'Through the Decades.' ...

Soprano Anna Netrebko will return to London’s Royal Opera after a six-year absence to open the 2025-26 season in a new production of Puccini’s “Tosca” that starts Jakub Hrůša’s tenure ...

Florentine Opera will perform three grand operas next season. But first, a comic production about the Supreme Court's odd couple.

Tenor Kang Wang sings the title role in Offenbach's opera with fantasy elements, drawn from three of Hoffmann's stories. "Tosca," May 15 and 17, 2026. Florentine's new staging of Puccini's classic ...

With no evidence of smoldering passion and uninhibited desire, this was a neutered “Tosca” all around. Ms. Waleson writes on opera for the Journal and is the author of “Mad Scenes and Exit ...

FILE - Soprano Anna Netrebko attends a news conference on the premiere of Manon Lescaut in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. Soprano Anna Netrebko will return to London ...