Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Do you remember that cataclysmal moment in the Stanley Kubrick film of ...

In May, the opera El último sueño de Frida y Diego will open at the Metropolitan Opera. The opera centers on the artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera—but not exactly as themselves. On the Day of the ...

2 Exclusive: Washington National Opera Forges Ahead Following Kennedy Center Split Incredible talent and fierce competition meet in a tantalizing read that details scandalous tales about life in the ...

In Gioachino Rossini's "Otello," it's not jealousy that proves the downfall of the title character. It's Francesco Berio di Salsa's libretto. In fairness, that's an oversimplification of complicated ...

Opera companies too tend to have these good intentions, though last weekend they didn’t pan out into good opera. These first weeks of spring it’s natural to make big plans based on good intentions: to ...

ROME (JTA) — Israeli writer Amos Oz is in Italy working on the libretto of an opera based on his novel "The Same Sea." The opera, with music by the Italian composer Fabio Vacchi, was commissioned by ...

We’re at a pizza parlor, listening to “The Perversity of Captain Morgan.” This opera has everything: drunk pirates, “horny fish,” a preteen stowaway from Colorado, and a character referred to only as ...