4 Cast Announced for BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL at Aurora's Paramount Theatre "After 18 months of planning and preparation behind the scenes, I'm thrilled to finally be jumping into the COT orchestra ...

Everyone's on the run in "The Queen of Spades," the feverish and absorbing Tchaikovsky opera that opens the San Francisco Opera Summer Festival. Nannies and neurotic partygoers, card sharks and ...

LA Opera kicked off its new season at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion this weekend with a pair of classics. Saturday night delivered a visually odd but musically solid production of "Eugene Onegin," ...

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Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" is a story of strong emotion accommodating itself, painfully but with resigned acceptance, to external reality. Dreams of romantic love prove untenable, or merely ...

Sergey Skorokhodov sings as Count Vaudemont during a dress rehearsal of the Dallas Opera’s Iolanta. ( Rose Baca - Staff Photographer ) Sergey Skorokhodov sings as Count Vaudemont during a dress ...

One of the peskier questions in the classical music world: Does lesser-known mean lesser? In short: Is repertory obscurity deserved, or in any case earned? New recordings of seldom-heard music by one ...

On The Queen of Spades at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. “Enough of this nonsense,” the elderly Countess commands in Act II of Tchaikovsky’s 1890 opera The Queen of Spades. She is referring to ...

Joan of Arc occupies a special place in the hearts of New Orleanians. As one of the patron saints of France, the former mother country of Louisiana, her heroism in battle and the morale she inspired ...