Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music is, by operatic programming standards, the law. It pleases the people, because the people have come to know it: “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Don Giovanni” and “The Magic ...

Mozart wrote his first opera at 12, and went on to pen 22 in the course of his life This summer there’s a rare opportunity to see Mozart’s La finta giardiniera fully staged in a new Glyndebourne ...

Following the success of their work on Thomas Arne’s Artaxerxes at the Linbury Studio last autumn, Ian Page and the Classical Opera Company return to Sadler’s Wells to present the world premiere of ...

Legend has it there were five encores at the triumphant Viennese premiere of Mozart and da Ponte's Le Nozze di Figaro on May 1, 1786. By the same token, Washington National Opera's new production of ...

Almost every opera lover agrees, Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” is among the finest. Opera librettist E.T.A. Hoffmann called it “the opera of all operas”. Michigan State University Opera Theater will be ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The first time Austrian theater and opera director Nikolaus Habjan heard “The Magic Flute,” at age 4, he was smitten, transfixed. He was a busy, restless child, but when he ...

When it comes to Mozart’s opera "The Marriage of Figaro," Adam Plachetka has sung both of its leading male roles: Figaro and Count Almaviva. And when the Czech bass-baritone finishes his three-day run ...

THOSE music-lovers who fidget through the overture and cannot wait for the curtain to go up on the “real” performance have cause to rejoice over the coming musical season in Europe. The score or two ...

Mozart’s Don Giovanni – A Rock Opera is a thrilling adventure of the irresistible bad boy who lives fast, loves hard, and laughs in the face of danger… until his past comes back to haunt him. A ...