The curtain was about to go up on Jake Heggie's "The End of the Affair" at the Seattle Opera when Speight Jenkins, the company's voluble general director, got onto the topic of "Doctor Atomic," which ...

If purists bristle at the notion that George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess is an opera, imagine what they’ll say when they discover that Long Beach Opera is presenting Queenie Pie, “Duke Ellington’s only ...

Maybe Gary Gisselman and Philip Brunelle should do this every 15 years. That's how long it has been since the two produced a new Stephen Paulus opera. The last time it was "The Three Hermits," and ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — The grand, gilded Hungarian State Opera House here is where Brahms once heard Mahler conduct Mozart. It’s where Bartok’s still-shocking “Bluebeard’s Castle” had its premiere a ...

"But what does opera mean to me today--I think that's a question that I'm wrestling with in my work more than any kind of agenda that I have. I think that there's a lot of power in that medium and I ...