La Scala exhibition celebrates the theater’s ballet corps with candid behind-the-scenes photos
Photographer Gérard Uféras has been granted full access to the La Scala ballet corps’ backstage over six years to produce a ...
'The Phantom of the Opera,' 100 this year, is feted with art exhibit
When "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered, 100 years ago, the term "horror film" didn't exist. "Spook melodrama," it was ...
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Heartbeat Opera’s ‘Salome’ Dares Us to Look
Director Elizabeth Dinkova flips the script on Salome by ensuring that the audience sees more of the male body than the ...
In ‘Festen,’ a Nightmare Birthday Becomes an Opera
The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse.
How Margaret Thatcher's life story became an opera
The Rest is History podcast co-host and historian Dominic Sandbrook is working with composer Joseph Phibbs to produce a ...
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Festen, Royal Opera review - firing on every front
So the Royal Opera had assembled a dream cast, conductor (Edward Gardner) and director (Richard Jones). The only question ...
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Challenging How Germany Remembers the 1972 Olympics Attack
With tensions running high over the war in Gaza, a new opera and a movie are looking back on the moment when Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Games. By Adam Sella Reporting from Berlin ...