The Russian singer, shunned over her past support of Vladimir V. Putin, made her first American appearance since 2019 at a ...

To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical ...

The concert as a whole demonstrated the astonishing range of George Gershwin’s music—from the Broadway musical stage to the ...

In a significant cultural development, Georgian conductor Mirian Khukhunaishvili has been appointed as the musical director ...

Anna Netrebko has condemned the war in Ukraine but declined to criticize Putin. Opera director says her presence is all about ...

It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house opened in Paris. Today, it is still a working theater — with 172 ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: If your Munich visit coincides with the opera’s annual summer festival and you’d like to attend a free live broadcast from the National Theatre/open-air concert at Max ...

Five years later and now newly married, they are honeymooning in a winter resort town outside Gdansk, trying to act ... This ex-art-house director’s 2020 “Force of Nature” served up ...

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

It was nicely appropriate that one of the ovations on first night should be for conductor Jakub Hrusa, who was making his maiden appearance as the new music director of the Royal Opera House.

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.