It may be one of the most mysterious film experiences you'll encounter this year, a mesmerizing mashup of music, opera and dance that was inspired by a historical coincidence — the deaths, on the same ...

NORTH ADAMS — Paul Lazar couldn’t get it out of his head. “I saw a little funny bit of it on YouTube,” he said, while searching for examples of work by Richard Foreman to show his students at New York ...

The late Andrew Porter, for many years the classical-music critic of The New Yorker, once wrote that he was tempted to consider “The Mother of Us All,” the composer Virgil Thomson’s second stage ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, Lowell House Opera returned to its historic venue, the Lowell House Dining Hall, with a three-performance run of Dominick Argento’s opera “Postcard from Morocco.” Directed by ...

The Dallas Opera will present the United States premiere of Dutch composer Michel van der Aa's avant-garde opera Sunken Garden in March 2018. Described by the composer as an "occult mystery film opera ...

John Glover’s Eat the Document is based on Dana Spiotta’s 2006 novel about New Left activists. Maria Baranova-Suzuki Throughout, a tenuous connection is drawn between Weathermen-style 1970s militants ...

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A man walks into a bar -- but much more than a punchline follows at "Cafe Buffe," the setting for a new comic opera of the same name by composer Dean Drummond and librettist Charles Bernstein.

Soprano Sarah Nalty, along with tenor Jonathan Lawlor, will be performing the second section of the four-part opera, "American Terror." In the entire work, four ...

BASEL, Switzerland — Herbert Wernicke, a German avant-garde opera designer whose productions appeared in major theaters across Europe, has died. He was 56. Wernicke died Tuesday in Basel, where he was ...