Los Angeles is not, historically, an opera city. Only in 1986 did it finally found a resident company, Music Center Opera, now Los Angeles Opera. Nor do we boast an actual opera house. The Dorothy ...

On Feb. 14 and 15, New Haven’s Shubert Theatre will host Puccini’s “La bohème” — one of the most performed operas of all time — in a production presented by Yale Opera, the Yale School of Music’s ...

The label of elitism sticks to opera like superglue. The label is a fake, but one for which no cultural chemical capable of removing it has yet proved effective. Still, opera populists are trying and ...

LA Opera President and CEO Christopher Koelsch has announced details for the company's 39th season. Music Director James Conlon will conduct three of the five mainstage productions, with other ...

The production, created specifically for grand opera houses, has its West Coast premiere Saturday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: “Restoring the original scale and glory to certain pieces … is what ...

With its final performance of The Magic Flute on Sunday, LA Opera concluded its landmark 40th Anniversary Season, capping a ...

There is nothing quite like opening night of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, a temple of opera, for pomp, pageantry and politics. The opening of the opera season at Teatro alla Scala in Milan draws ...

James Conlon will conduct that classic as well as productions of ‘Falstaff’ and ‘The Magic Flute’ as he concludes his 20-year run as music director. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Looking for something ...

New York’s Metropolitan Opera has presented an unprecedented number of new productions in recent years, but it’s taking a different approach to Puccini’s La Bohème. The opera tells the story of a ...