Opera is considered by many to be the ultimate art form. An eclectic combination of vocal and orchestral music, drama, and emotion, it certainly is the most complete and complex form of art there is.

It took six years and $32 million, but the Margravial Opera House in Bavaria, Germany, is as bright, colorful, and opulent as it was almost 300 years ago. The Free State of Bavaria invested a total of ...

Few Baroque operas (and all by Handel) have clawed their way from oblivion to the margins of the standard repertoire, a source of chagrin to anyone who loves the period or simply hungers for broader ...

The Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) will present a fully staged production of the 17th-century Italian opera “La finta pazza” (“the make-believe madwoman”) by Francesco Sacrati (1605–1650) in two ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As they have for decades, 19th-century warhorses like “La Bohème” and “Carmen” still dominate opera- house marquees. But just as today’s diners are ...

It was during the Paul Kellogg era of the nineties and the aughts that New York City Opera became a force for Baroque opera—specifically works by Handel, which, with their historical-mythical plots ...

For this year’s Hanwha Classic, French Baroque takes center stage in a one-woman opera performed by renowned French soprano Patricia Petibon and Ensemble Amarillis, performing in Korea for the first ...

Sydney-based Pinchgut Opera is internationally praised for research-driven revivals of baroque opera gems with an acute attention to historically-informed interpretation of the music. In this ...

Boston Baroque's 2021-2022 season returns to the much-anticipated annual staged opera with performances of Handel's rarely-heard Amadigi di Gaula. Performances will take place on Thursday, April 21 at ...

There’s a new opera company in town. Established in 2017, the American Baroque Opera Company will present their first fully staged opera, George Frideric Handel’s Alcina, March 2-4 at Arts Mission Oak ...