At Caramoor, San Francisco’s Philharmonic Baroque Orchestra presents Handel’s seldom-performed 1736 work.
Catalan theater collective La Fura dels Baus stages an oddly gloomy version of Haydn’s oratorio at the Mostly Mozart Festival.
A chance to experience one of the composer’s seldom-performed pieces at the Mostly Mozart Festival.
Opera Saratoga’s summer festival offers a new chamber version of a work about a competition that’s for the birds; a story of a young oracle who’s a bookie’s nightmare; and a tale of frustrated asylum seekers.
At Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the stories of a 21st-century soldier who committed suicide following racist hazing and of a money-hungry Southern family at the turn of the 20th century.
Charles Wuorinen’s opera about two men’s secret love has its U.S. premiere.
Donizetti’s ‘Pia de’ Tolomei’ comes to America; a Jonathan Safran Foer art book onstage.
At Heartbeat Opera’s Spring Festival, ‘Fidelio’ takes on mass incarceration and ‘Don Giovanni’ is tailored for the #MeToo moment; at the Met, Anna Netrebko sings Tosca for the first time in David McVicar’s production.
The Met performs Massenet’s ‘Cendrillon’ for the first time; the Juilliard School mounts a rare full staging of Rameau’s ‘Hippolyte et Aricie.’
Opera Omaha’s inaugural ONE Festival expands the artform while taking a special interest in its Midwestern setting.
Phelim McDermott’s new staging updates Mozart’s opera to the 1950s at a Coney Island-like amusement park.
A book of brutality at Opera Philadelphia; Canadian Opera Company updates a Mozart libretto.
The sixth annual celebration of new work in opera theater features works about a 1940s B-movie actress, a prisoner in solitary confinement, a free diver and more.
An astute new production overcomes many setbacks and avoids its predecessor’s pitfalls.
Houston Grand Opera offers a charming, family-friendly piece, in an alternative performance space, that manages to be heartwarming without being sappy.
The latest John Adams/Peter Sellars opera tries to elevate the California Gold Rush but seems more like a museum diorama than a theatrical event.
Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s opera about Susan B. Anthony deals with issues that are just as resonant today as they were 70 years ago.
A 12-concert traversal of all 150 biblical psalms, each psalm set by a different composer.
The panic-inducing radio play gets an operatic overhaul thanks to composer Annie Gosfield in a production helmed by theatrical provocateur Yuval Sharon in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The Washington National Opera offered a minimalist staging of Handel’s work that brought the music to the fore.
The Boston Lyric Opera gave the world premiere of a show about a pair of Edinburgh killers who sold cadavers to a surgery school.
David Pountney’s concept for a new ‘Ring’ cycle started out with a focus on satire and trickery; but in its latest installment it takes a more foreboding turn.
Based on the surreal film by Luis Buñuel, the opera follows a group of aristocrats at a dinner party gone awry.
A rare staging by the Opéra de Paris revives the work’s longer original French version.
Two Chicago companies explore the boundaries of French baroque opera.