The night began, as always, with the traditional and much-anticipated presentation of white-clad debutantes and their tuxedoed escorts.

From grand chandeliers to velvet-clad balconies, opera houses have long stood as symbols of cultural heritage, architectural ...

The cuts decided so far are huge: 130 million euros will be cut this year alone, 149 million in 2026, and another 164 million ...

New York’s Glimmerglass Festival will stage the opera, which is based on Cisneros' 1984 novel and inspired by her childhood ...

Our definitive list of the must-know performing artists making their mark this year.

Is Harry Styles now living in Berlin? According to the German daily tabloid Bild, the British singer has bought a flat in the ...

The Welsh-Ukrainian singer Natalya Romaniw was a late addition to a new “Die Walküre” in London, but she has become a ...

La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera … Winton and Longreach.

Survey last year found just one in five Germans know how many Poles were killed during the Nazi wartime occupation ...

Australian Jewish director Barrie Kosky whips up a perfect storm of brilliance in what is arguably the greatest opera ever ...

For Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” Heartbeat went to prisons and recorded the voices of incarcerated people, who appeared on video singing the Prisoners Chorus. For Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” the two main ...

Full marks to the Royal Opera for good planning: one first night knocking us all sideways with the darkest German operatic tragedy followed by another letting us off the hook with a short comedy by ...