Readers respond to Rebecca Humphries’s article about the actor’s much criticised comments on opera and ballet Every generation seems to produce someone ready to declare opera and ballet irrelevant.

SALZBURG, Austria — On Feb. 28, 2026, the Salzburg Landestheater premiered Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Armenian-American soprano Tatev Baroyan, an award-winning artist who has performed ...

Die erste Hälfte des Spiels war torarm. Gerade einmal 22 von 56 Versuchen landeten im Netz. Das lag zum einen an der Effizienz auf beiden Seiten. Zum anderen auch an der starken Leistung des Ferlacher ...

Mounting an opera has never been easy. Rudolf Bing, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972, once offered this observation: “To make successful opera in New York you do ‘Carmen ...

If only European generals had possessed the tactical skills of Opera Orlando’s leaders, perhaps World War I might have been a shorter and less bloody affair. Opera Orlando waited until it felt the ...

Everett Baumgarten in the title role of Rachel Portman's "The Little Prince," in a Feb. 2 dress rehearsal for a Dallas Opera production at the Winspear Opera House. A Pilot crash-lands in the Sahara, ...

There is no shortage of odd designs that have fallen in and out of fashion in the automobile industry over the years. Take, for instance, the weirdest car windows ever built, which you'd think ...

The opera, created by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, in collaboration with director and choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, tells the story of Civil War-era spies Mary Jane Bowser, ...

Christos Makridis is also a co-founder of Living Opera and the Living Opera Foundation and founder of CM Culture Management. He is also an affiliate and contributor to several think tank communities ...

Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know how you do it,” the tenor recently told BBC Radio 3. In the same interview, ...

Opera has been serious about transforming the way people browse the web. In late 2024, the company said how we do this would dramatically change in two years. However, it already did: In 2025, an ...

The newest version of the Opera One browser improves on the interesting Tab Islands feature, brings a re-engineered AI assistant, and adds theme-specific soundscapes. Here are the details. Following ...