Opera flourishes: in spite of all the financial cutbacks, the UK’s opera companies are managing to create new work and ...

Located on Place de la Bastille in Paris, the Bastille Opera is one of the main venues of the Opéra National de Paris, dedicated to hosting operas and ballet performances year-round. Opened in 1989, ...

Our Pick of the Upcoming Season 2026 is a year of change at the top of the London opera scene. The Royal Opera’s new Music ...

The Bastille Opera House presents Siegfried by Richard Wagner, the third installment of The Ring of the Nibelung, in a ...

Coastal Comedy January 2026 (Saturday, January 10) The Royal Opera House: La Traviata (Wednesday, January 14 and Wednesday, January 21) Swan Lake (Thursday, January 15 and Friday, January 16) Studio ...

Moments of transcendent beauty and heroic triumph sparkle in the third chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle, brought to life under Barrie Kosky’s inspired eye following his spectacular Das Rheingold (2023) ...

When I was at school our music teacher was also the organist and choir master at the local church and at the end of every ...

It marks the most expensive ticket on sale in Britain by any publicly subsidised performing arts company. RBO enjoys a state subsidy of over £22 million every year through Arts Council England. In ...

Your reviewer spent childhood in the hills about fifty miles west of Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta then and Atlanta now constitute two different places. In the before-time that preceded the internet, ...

Few opera singers in the world can handle the enormous demands of Richard Wagner’s Siegfried, but Atlanta Opera has one of the best. Heldentenor Stefan Vinke is triumphant in the title role of ...

An epic Atlanta Opera adventure through Richard Wagner’s colossal, four-part “Ring Cycle” of operas continues this spring with the third in the series, “Siegfried,” after last year’s “Die Walküre” and ...

Stefan Vinke is widely regarded as the world’s pre-eminent heldentenor, and he’ll mark his 130th performance in the title role at this weekend’s opening night. When one considers heldentenors, those ...