"Aida," Verdi's surprisingly intimate grand opera, returns to New Mexico in a new staging by Opera Southwest, featuring celebrated soprano Michelle Johnson in the title role.

Reminding us of the kind of kids’ storybook viewer into which slot circular wheels of film frames, this similar retro feel device likewise features two eyepieces, and indeed two lenses. Where it ...

No elephants, just heart. Opera Southwest’s 'Aida' swaps spectacle for raw emotion, powerful voices and a close-up Cairo love triangle.

We're less easily shocked today. But watching Florentine Opera's new production of "Carmen," it's easy to see what startled its Parisian audience when Bizet's opera debuted in 1875. Carmen's brazen ...

Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, The University of Western Australia As the overture ends, the red curtains at His Majesty’s Theatre rise to reveal a flat, white floor-to-ceiling ...

If the heart and soul of New York resides in art and culture, the city’s green lung lies without doubt in Central Park. It is the very place of recreation in which stressed New Yorkers take time out ...

Few do spectacle as well as Cameron Mackintosh. And his rejiggered version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” is as much a spectacle as it was when Mackintosh first produced it nearly ...

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Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical arrives in Poland as a large-scale arena production. Featuring more than 230 costumes, grand sets and iconic songs, it tells the story of the mysterious Phantom who ...