Riccardo Chailly’s final new production as artistic director is a celebration of Verdi and of a conductor whose relationship ...

Opera needs big money: opera chiefs need big donors. New York’s Metropolitan Opera has just lost a $200m investment, but should it have accepted it in the first place?

The K-pop superstars will go on a colossal comeback tour: 79 shows across five continents in 11 months. But why were they gone for so long? By Adeel Hassan The K-pop powerhouse BTS announced on ...

Though she never really left. Beyond Vienna, she continued performing at Berlin’s Staatsoper and Arena di Verona from 2022 to 2025. But most major opera houses tried to avoid her, following the lead ...

Opera lovers arriving at Covent Garden this week for the start of the new season were greeted by Ukrainian flags and scores of picketing protesters. “While she sings, Ukraine bleeds,” read the ...

Demonstrators outside the Royal Opera House protested the Russian soprano’s return to the London stage in a new production of “Tosca.” By Alex Marshall Reporting from the opening night of “Tosca” in ...

If you come to opera via film musicals and, later, stage shows, Tosca is amongst the most accessible. The story of the lovers and the evil apparatchik is told at a furious pace, trauma after trauma ...

Does it matter how good she was? Because Anna Netrebko was very good indeed. At the Royal Opera House in London on September 11th, the Russian-born soprano sang the title role in “Tosca”—Puccini’s ...

Strolling through Central Park on a weekday evening and you might stumble on a concert. Although something is discernibly missing—the sound of music. Look closer and you’ll notice everyone in the ...

She has not yet taken the stage, but upcoming performances by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko at Britain’s Royal Opera House have drawn angry criticism from Kyiv and prompted protests in London as ...

After a six-year hiatus, renowned Russian soprano Anna Netrebko is set to make a highly anticipated — and deeply divisive — return to London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. The 53-year-old opera ...

The Royal Ballet and Opera have been urged to drop one of the most famous opera singers in the world over her alleged links to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The likes of Anna Netrebko, a ...