When prolific composer Ludwig van Beethoven wrote the first iteration of his only opera — “Fidelio” — he dedicated it to a ...

Garsington’s airy and luminous opera pavilion challenges any interpreter of a work so filled – dramatically and musically – with the subterranean darkness of buildings, of institutions, and of the ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

It is the Metropolitan Opera’s job, some of us think, to gather the best singers in the world, in the roles that suit them. I thought of this last night when the Met revived Fidelio, Beethoven’s opera ...