Opera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday.

A stunning dress named “Ngoc Diep Ky Nam” by designer Dang Tran Tri has been selected as the national costume which the ...

Works by three out of five composers programmed (Donizetti, Verdi, and Charbrier) were 19th century classics ... Seasons” ...

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might ...

Nearly two decades ago, My Chemical Romance released their career-defining rock opera, “The Black Parade.” It cemented their ...

Giacomo Puccini, the composer of “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly,” has been called the world’s most popular ...

We can all agree that growing a moustache for charity is a good idea. But is it worth keeping afterwards? Harry Pearson looks to the past to find the answers.

The Wagner concert was titled “Gods and Mortals,” an oddity since Wagner’s gods perish and are thus quite mortal. The program ...

The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome classical ensemble Quartetto di Cremona on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Weis ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering ... At the turn of the 20th century, the country was home to at least 1,000 pear varieties ...

he haunts The Paradise just like the more familiar Phantom did the Palais Garnier Opera House. Gerrit Graham as Beef in ‘Phantom of the Paradise.’ / United Archives/GettyImages The film was ...