Opera thrives on competition as much as collaboration—on who can sing higher, louder, longer, more passionately; what production can seduce or scandalize ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Puccini balances on a knife’s edge between kitsch and melodrama. It is hard to get right. And much-feted ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Regietheater (German for director's theater) is ...

To which the only answers were “stand up yourselves” and “what does it take?” Most of the arena stalls eventually followed suit, but my thinking is, if it’s a thrilling conclusion and you know it’s ...

“My dearest dear.” sang the baritone to the soprano at West Berlin’s Deutsche Opera Berlin last week, “a triumph awaits you.” As a prophet,Baritone Thomas Stewart was only half right. For their roles ...

This must be the year of the opera scandal. Among the latest: •A degenerate production of Mozart's The Abduction From the Seraglio at Berlin's Komische Oper that was mounted with advice from ...

“Those in charge of the decision over whether to stage the Mozart opera Idomeneo … Have decided to aim for two performances this year,” the Berlin-based Deutsche Oper said in a statement on Friday ...