The company's staging and performances were stunning. However, Poul Ruders’ "Handmaid's Tale" score falls short musically.

When the joyful energy at the final curtain - love briefly triumphant in the power-dominated world of Wagner's Ring - is as insanely high as it was at the end of a dizzying first act, that killer of a ...

At the end of the act, the audience let out an animal roar. You sometimes hear that in an opera house. And when you do, it’s ...

The argument about whether Radio 3 is “dumbing down” is one that flares up every time the station makes any change to its schedules or tries out a new presenter. More broadly, many long-term fans of ...

If you’re thinking of the muscle-bound hero of action films—or even Disney animation—boy, have you got the wrong HERCULES. As ...

As an audience member accurately put it, “Akhnaten” is quite a trip. Curtains rose on the LA Opera’s newest masterpiece at ...

Los Angeles Opera revives its Phelim McDermott production of Philip Glass' 'Akhnaten' with a new cast headed by countertenor John Holiday and with Dalia Stasevska conducting.

When the Fredonia Opera House announced this concert, I closed my laptop and picked up the phone. The U.S. Navy Band’s Sea Chanters were at the Opera House for an evening concert last Friday and I ...

Inflation is rampant, jobs are vanishing, and the nation is divided between political extremes. The loudest voices are on the far right, which has gained a power hold, in part by scapegoating ...

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Anna Skryleva is an award winning conductor, composer, pianist, and synesthete. She regularly appears as a guest conductor at prestigious opera houses including the Hamburg State Opera, the Royal ...

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