‘I want to be Lady Gaga’: star soprano’s kids… Bulgarian opera star Sonya Yoncheva has a daughter who wants to be Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, and a son who wants to be…
Classical music: Fiona Maddocks’s 10 best… 1. OrpheusLeeds Grand; October (available to watch online until 30 April 2023)In a year in which opera has come…
The Metropolitan Opera’s Don Carlo returns,… Opera aficionados will be disappointed that David McVicar’s production of Don Carlo, new in February, comes…
Commentary: Redemption, writ large, in L.A.… “Omar,” the new opera by composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, finds its strength in the simplicity of…
Juan Diego Flórez and Danielle de Niese light up… After the disruption of the past few years, it was no doubt a sensible move to plan a cautious opera season.…
Meet Lina González-Granados, L.A. Opera’s… In a concert hall in downtown Los Angeles on a recent Saturday evening, classical music fans applauded a superstar…
English National Opera’s Tosca has scale and… It’s important to get off to a good start, as the past week in politics has shown. English National Opera…
From Richard Nixon to Kurt Cobain, operas about… Relevance is a perennial concern for the opera world, and the new season at London’s Royal Opera House — with three…
Don Giovanni opens Royal Opera’s season with… The monogram of Queen Elizabeth II, so long gracing the regal red curtains, has been covered over in black.…
Bavarian State Opera’s The Devils of Loudun… Sex-crazed nuns, in a hysteria they attribute to demonic possession, paint themselves with feminist slogans.…