"It's nothing to do with loving a man," government prosecutor Mortimer screams at King Edward II at the beginning of George Benjamin's third opera, "Lessons in Love and Violence." He pays heavily for ...

LONDON — Depending on whom you ask, director Katie Mitchell is either a guiding light or a destructive force of the British stage. Although she mostly works abroad now, her staging of the new opera ...

Opera is a spectacle that can be glorious and delightful or a painful bore depending on how you approach it and how much background you have to appreciate it. Larry Mantle talks with opera and music ...

A few years ago, when I was in Catalonia, Spain, I heard about the Cornut Festival (pronounced kor-noot) in a small rural village. Unable to get specific information about it, I nonetheless decided to ...

Rob Holter’s students recently performed a scene inspired by, but not actually in, Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly.” Part of the group had roles in the faux opera and, after getting a crash course ...