Mantua's court hosts Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo, the earliest opera still performed today. Boasting a large orchestra it is one of the earliest to specify instrumentation, including three organs, ...

Have you ever read one of those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books for children? Written in second person, they allow a reader to make decisions that change the direction of the plot, the next chapter ...

All that could be heard was the remnant of tenor tones that must have been thrilling in days when phonograph records were a greater drain on the purse. A little later, we saw Paoli in the flesh—no ...

State Opera South Australia’s production of Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, co-produced with the West Australian Opera and the Irish National Opera, heralds a new globalised collaboration. It is a ...

Detroit's Music Hall will launch a new Classic Opera Series, its first in more than 30 years. The series premieres on Feb. 28, 2026, with a concert production of Puccini's 'Turandot'. The performance ...

Matthew Ozawa had already directed Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” for San Francisco Opera when the company's director asked him in early 2023 to direct Wagner’s “Parsifal.” ...

You get only one chance to make a first impression, and the first sight of Boston Lyric Opera’s recent “Macbeth” was a head-scratcher. The curtain rose to reveal a full stage, the BLO chorus dressed ...

Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). Nowadays, she mostly writes Fortnite and ...

Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppe Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth. Now to a birthday party. Every year, fans of Giuseppe ...

The 2025 college football season continues as Week 7 is here. Conference play is now in full swing and with each passing week, the stakes get higher. As more teams ...

Niamh O'Sullivan as Carmen and John Findon as Don José: fitfully powerful, finely sungAll images by Bill Knight for The Arts Desk O’Sullivan has emerged as a marvellous singer-actor, with a singular, ...

An Ohio mom has revisited the moment her routine ultrasound while pregnant with her first child took a shocking turn. Marie Filatov, 25, from Cincinnati, posted a video to TikTok under the handle ...