‘La bohème’ at KenCen will make you fall in love with...
Washington National Opera's visually poignant new production features a profoundly talented cast.
New opera ‘Geniza: Hidden Fragments’ was inspired by medieval Jewish texts
The latest work by Arnold Saltzman has the potential to be one of the great new operas of the 21st century.
IN Series mounts glorious ‘I Was Looking at the Ceiling and...
This rarely performed work, with music by John Adams and text by June Jordan, is an experience not to be missed.
‘I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the...
The 1995 'songplay' by John Adams and June Jordan created a new genre of musical theater and boldly confronted systemic issues of the 1990s.
‘Music brings me closer to people’: John Holiday on his love...
The multi-genre countertenor stars in Annapolis Opera’s 'Voices of Our Time' concert on April 15.
An effervescent ‘Serse’ surprises and delights at Catholic University
The Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art stages the 1738 opera by George Frideric Handel in Las Vegas — and Elvis makes an appearance.
Annapolis Opera’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ comes to gorgeous life
The production of Mozart’s classic gives much to enjoy for opera aficionados and novices alike.
Virginia Opera’s ‘La Traviata’ is a triumph despite the libretto
The magnificently melancholy season finale features an epic, insightful performance of Violetta by Brandie Inez Sutton.
Gloriously impassioned, ‘Blue’ at Kennedy Center centers Black lives
The thrilling new opera defies the idea that there should be no space for global-majority folks to control the telling of their own stories.
‘We’ve sweated blood for this work’: Briana Hunter on performing in...
As the acclaimed opera opens at Kennedy Center, the mezzo-soprano who plays the mother of a slain Black son talks about going to a place beyond grief.
Maryland Lyric Opera offers outstanding ‘Otello’
Verdi was surely smiling down from the heavens to hear his most stirring work given such a powerful, clear, and moving rendering.
‘Vive la France’ is a delicious treat at Shakespeare Opera Theatre
Four female performers elevate the script and space with gorgeous interpretations of some of the best-known pieces in opera.
‘Sweethearts’ and ‘The Zoo,’ two antique Valentines, from Victorian Lyric Opera
Sadly, these Gilbert and Sullivan light operettas are showing their age.
Two men share forbidden love as 1950s ‘Fellow Travelers’ at Virginia...
On a journey of love and loss, they face forces that make authentic lives unbearably costly.
Maryland Lyric Opera’s ‘Falstaff’ delights at Strathmore
The concert performance highlighted the musical, more than the theatrical, virtues of Verdi’s comic masterpiece
An inside look at WNO’s January 21 American Opera Initiative
Kelley Rourke, the new artistic advisor for the program, previews three new 20-minute operas.
Britten’s spooky ‘Turn of the Screw’ typifies Opera Baltimore’s creativity
This semi-staged concert opera presentation was a wonderful introduction to the phenomenal company's range of work.
‘Pirates of Penzance’ showcases Virginia Opera’s strengths and charm
The Gilbert and Sullivan opera enjoys delightful singing and comic timing.
A flat-out glorious ‘Requiem’ marks IN Series’ move past Mozart
The singing fills the space with a sound that penetrates the audience’s very being.
Electrifying ‘Elektra’ at Washington National Opera
A stunningly effective mixture of all the elements that make opera worth attending.