Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

AFTER a silence of about five years, Massenet’s “Manon” has been revived at the Metropolitan, and the worst has happened. We hear from “Manon” fanciers that full justice was not done to Massenet’s ...

Waterperry Opera Festival has unveiled its full programme for the 2026 Festival. The festival returns this summer under the ...

Opera Theater of St Louis general director Charles MacKay letter, responding to April 19 article, says English-language productions of operas are flourishing in a number of opera companies, including ...