Jules Massenet’s classic work received a streamlined English adaptation from Heartbeat Opera, with musical-theater performers and a focus on the seamier side of the 18th-century setting.

But the most interesting figures are a pair of opera singers: a tenor conscripted into the German army, and his beloved.

The setting shift to 1930s upper-crust America gives the revival of the farcical operatic comedy a modern zing and just feels comfortable and fun.

This weekend, San Diego Opera presented its 10th production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” and on opening night Friday, it played to a nearly full house at the 3,000-seat San Diego ...

Mahagonny, the spider-web city sucking in men (and they are, even in this 2026 take, mostly men) with cash to burn, is the ...

Read our review of The Great Wave at Theatre Royal, Glasgow. Dai Fujikura’s new opera gets bogged down in biographical detail ...

Read our review of English National Opera's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: Brecht and Weill’s largest collaborative ...

I still remember how my heart would pound with excitement each week as the latest episode of “Game of Thrones” began unfolding on my TV screen. I had the same feeling Friday night at the Dr. Phillips ...

The crumbling English country house setting gives a radical twist to the opera’s complex social web ...

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