Hallowe'en is about to arrive early in the opera world: next week English National Opera opens its revival of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, a taut and terrifying masterpiece based on Henry James's enigmatic ghost story. Read More
It is in some ways the beginning and the end in opera. Read More
Today is Saturday, September 5, the 248th day of 2009. Read More
After a relatively quiet summer, I saw Boston Midsummer Opera's Cosí fan tutte at BU's Tsai Center. Read More
Giacomo Meyerbeer's 1836 masterpiece, "Les Huguenots," tonight at 7 p.m. in the Sosnoff Theater at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. Read More
The Bard Music Festival's annual in-depth investigation of a single composer homes in on Richard Wagner this summer, but don't expect a staging of one of his operas. Read More
There have been many cases of historically momentous operas that claimed the public in their day, then fell into neglect. Read More
If the operatic component of Bard College's annual SummerScape extravaganza had a television equivalent, it might be "Antiques Roadshow." Read More
Pop music is an interesting genre and its masters should not be dismissed easily. Read More
A member of a German-Jewish wealthy merchant family in Berlin, Meyerbeer waa a noted composer of opera who brought great ... Read the full Giacomo Meyerbeer bio.