For a number of years my husband and I went often to the Metropolitan Opera, in its grand house at Lincoln Center. We went by cab, and as we drew near I liked to watch the people streaming toward it.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is known for bold storytelling, from reimagined classics to powerful contemporary works. But how does a spoken play transform into a fully sung opera? According to ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Dean is an Australian composer, born in 1961. For about 15 years—1984 to 2000—he played the viola in the Berlin ...

Kane’s final play is being adapted for the first time, 17 years after she killed herself. Composer Philip Venables talks about the rare musical quality of her work Before her death in 1999, aged just ...

The Playground Free Play Festival will present Waterfall, a new fully scored opera by composer Lisa Scola Prosek, at Potrero Stage in San Francisco. The work tells the story of poet Laura Hothkiss ...