Before last Sunday, I would never have recommended a “semi-staged” opera performance—that is, one which sacrifices some sets, costumes and stage movement to save costs while still allowing an audience ...

Opera Orlando was on the road this weekend, bringing a beautiful production of Dvořák’s “Rusalka” to the grounds of the Maitland Art Center. Think “The Little Mermaid” moves to Florida and, like many ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Most of the time in the opera world, the same perhaps 50 venerable classics are performed over and over again. They are great works, and it is worth hearing ...

“Even divine nature needs its diminuendos and morendos, in order to come to life again and rise up, heading for a great crescendo, attaining her strength and stature once more in a mighty ff ...

Sally Mathews as an increasingly tormented Rusalka, with mermaid sisters Admirably upfront chorus nymphs (literally so as they shake their breasts in the refrains of their opening chorus), some clever ...

There aren’t many major operas that the 84-year-old Pittsburgh Opera has not performed, especially ones that have been around since 1901. But on Sept. 17, the Pittsburgh Opera will stage the company’s ...