He doesn’t choose the recipients, which is done by a panel of industry judges, but he knows how critical their work is, as a librettist himself. He’s written dozens of libretti, including the ...

Students and faculty members from Colby College were also part of the recent performance of "The Black Azaleas Song Cycle" ...

The Woodhull story is “a messy story,” Bond said, with considerable understatement. The original title of “Mrs. President” ...

Did William Shakespeare write his plays? Novelist Jodi Picoult doesn’t think so and tells Claire Allfree why she has chosen ...

Played on a dynamic revolving set by Adam Rigg, The Listeners is smartly written and smartly directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz.

In Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s work at Opera Philadelphia, a group of people all suffer from hearing a mysterious hum; ...

Composers are always making new operas, but leaders in the opera world stress the need for emotional immediacy.

Martin Duncan’s 2008 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream remains one of the best and funniest things Opera North has ever ...

At the Metropolitan Opera, Jeanine Tesori’s work about an American drone pilot proves eerie and emotionally resonant; ...

Ambrogio Maestri has sung the title role in Verdi’s comedy hundreds of times, most recently for the Paris Opera. He’s also ...

Claire Devon, the protagonist of Missy Mazzoli’s seductively nightmarish opera “The Listeners,” is living contentedly as a ...

Live in HD” series at Munson in Utica, New York continues at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, with Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera “Grounded.” ...