They did so masterfully last night, thanks above all to Royal Opera Conductor Laureate Antonio Pappano’s close relationship with four remarkable Wagnerian principals and Barrie Kosky’s dark, spare but ...

San Francisco Opera ... house debut as the captured Trojan princess, Ilia. Fang's performances, especially in the operas of Mozart, have won considerable praise at the Metropolitan Opera, London's ...

The new ROH Ring reaches its second evening with the best all-round cast I can recall in Die Walkure: the uniformly sonorous sounds emanating from the stage are matched by the glorious row coming ...

On the day he was announced as Conductor Laureate of the Royal Opera, Antonio Pappano proved that it was possible to discover ever deeper resonances in Wagner’s music. His conducting of the Ring ...

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Antonio Pappano (conductor) Lise Davidsen (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Georg Zeppenfeld (bass), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (baritone), Amanda Forsyth (soprano ...

Opera can tell small, intimate tales as well as fill the vast canvases of Aida or Boris Godunov, but the acoustics of the back rooms of pubs and the three-piece bands to accompany singers can ...

Royal Opera’s new conductor laureate Antonio Pappano achieves a personal Wagnerian triumph Granted, a couple of artists are less than ideal: Stanislas de Barbeyrac’s Siegmund starts to run out ...

The work chosen to showcase the talents of the current members of the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Artists Programme on this occasion, Telemann’s opera dates from 1725, and was designed as an ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Nickson will lead an orchestra of 25 musicians on the Opera House stage. Two years ago, the ensemble performed at the Opera House for the ...

On the day he was announced as Conductor Laureate of the Royal Opera, Antonio Pappano proved that it was possible to discover ever deeper resonances in Wagner’s music. His conducting of the Ring ...