The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s final work is an immersive, astonishing achievement, viscerally depicting a group of people affected in different ways by a school shooting. Jules Massenet’s ...

Opera has released its gaming-centric browser for Linux. With Opera GX, you get plenty of killer features for everyday use. Opera GX is free to install and use. I use a lot of web browsers. I ...

On February 8, 2026, in Kebumen, Java, Indonesia, @abbasysunarto shared a video of their cat sleeping in an unusual position. In the video, the cat was so deeply asleep that it was difficult to wake ...

Readers respond to Rebecca Humphries’s article about the actor’s much criticised comments on opera and ballet Every generation seems to produce someone ready to declare opera and ballet irrelevant.

Returning from the dead, an aspiration devoutly to be wished by the living and the bereaved, permeates opera and theater. Billy Bigelow gets to come back in “Carousel.” In “The Flying Dutchman,” the ...

EastEnders fans recently discovered that Hollywood star Hugh Bonneville appeared in Walford early in his career. Elsewhere, ...

At the start of the opera “Dialogues des Carmelites,” Blanche de la Force, the daughter of a French nobleman, decides to become a nun and join the Carmelite sisters at Compiegne. The French Revolution ...

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Lisette Oropesa, the soprano from Louisiana, has become a big, big singer. She is rail thin (a runner and a vegan). But she is a prima donna in New York, Salzburg, and elsewhere. I remember a time ...

We also witness Kosky developing the intense imagination which powered his Rheingold and Walküre. That his wise, compassionate ancient Erda would be with us throughout was a given, but not how he'd ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Audiences are packing the theater for a new “Tristan und Isolde.” Everyone can see the same spectacle, but they probably don’t hear ...

Laffont Competition Grand Finals Winners Gabriel Natal-Báez, Elizabeth Hanje, Song Hee Lee, Shannon Crowley, Robert Wente, and Anna Thompson. (Natalie Powers / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera has ...