Human jealousy and the curse of love. A mythical creature and the absence of love. Verdi's Otello and Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur stand in stark contrast, one a drama of circumstance, the other ...

Los Angeles Opera began last week with the Pulitzer Prize announcement that “Omar,” the acclaimed new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, was being honored as the year’s best musical ...

Jonas Kaufmann’s interpretation of Otello moves between intensity and doubt while Pappano builds tremendous orchestral urgency and pace There are only a handful of stars now for whom a major label ...

Rossini's rarely performed version of Shakespeare's tragedy comes to Opera Philadelphia for the first time in a critically acclaimed production by Spanish director Emilio Sagi (Tancredi 2017). Set in ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Now, due to the pandemic, they are singing from their own homes. At its ...

Festival Opera, Walnut Creek's invaluable but imperiled opera company, continued its slow climb back from the financial brink over the weekend with a theatrically vivid and largely well-sung ...

Verdi's Otello boils down Shakespeare's play to its essentials and what it lacks in poetry it more than makes up for in music says Sameer Rahim. Aleksandrs Antonenko as Otello and Anja Harteros as ...

In Act 3 of David Alden's new production, a rugged, dishevelled Otello cowers front stage while the ambassadors of his home city, Venice — here stiffly attired patriarchs and matriarchs — bear ...