The pairing of two short or one-act works may be a more familiar concept from the ballet season, but it can be just as powerful in the world of opera, too. The textbook example is of course Mascagni’s ...

Erwartung is paired with Bluebeard's Castle in a captivating double bill at the Canadian Opera Company. Directed by Robert Lepage, the production features mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as Judith and ...

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Operatic scenery usually portrays the landscape or the living space that characters inhabit. For the two works on Seattle Opera’s upcoming double bill, however, the setting is interior: What we are ...

Opera Orlando has released first look footage of THE MERRY WIDOW, Franz Lehár's effervescent operetta playing two performances only at Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” is a tragic parable of human isolation. Béla Balázs’ libretto recounts Bluebeard’s resistance to his new bride Judith’s efforts to open the doors of his castle — that is, ...

If Freud's hysterical patients were a musical form, what would they sound like? Robert Lepage's classical and widely travelled 1993 Canadian Opera Company production of Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung, ...

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The first two decades of the twentieth century were a remarkable time for the development of opera. In reaction to the excesses of the Wagnerian and verismo schools of opera, in Germany and Italy ...