If you like purple tights, green glitter, algebraic equations, parrot puppets, diverting dance and smashed cellos, this is the show for you. Director Damiano Michieletto and his versatile team (Paolo ...

If the curtain goes up at six o’clock and comes down again at just before ten, a director has plenty of scope to explore nooks and crannies - and operas are not short of those. Roll in the fact that ...

Offenbach's fantastical final work, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), opens the Metropolitan Opera's 2024–25 Live in HD season on Saturday, October 5, at 1PM ET. French tenor Benjamin ...

In Jacques Offenbach's fantasy opera, the poet E.T.A. Hoffmann dreams of three women - a mechanical performing doll, a bejeweled siren who steals his reflection, and the consumptive daughter of a ...

Los Angeles Opera-s production of Jacques Offenbach-s charming piece of escapist theater. At the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Music Center, 135 North Grand Ave.

Never mind: this is where we are, so how well are the tales of the poet’s three loves and the frame in which a fourth battles it out with a demon and a muse sung, played and directed? There are some ...

Below are the guests for this episode of the podcast. Francesca Brittan Associate Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University Tenor Matthew Polenzani of the Metropolitan Opera, Veronica ...

A killer game of hide and seek.