The production opens Thursday and continues in repertory for eight more performances through Aug. 3. As Steve Barnes reported last month, the four-week season at WTF begins a new ...

Andean lyric poetry is expected to meet a King Arthur-era legend in American Modern Opera Company’s staged adaptation of Olivier Messiaen’s song cycle “Harawi,” which makes its U.S ...

Longtime patrons who date back to the era when the company was the Lake George Opera might recall “La Vie Parisienne.” There were two productions, one during the '80s, and the most recent in 2007.

Zachary Woolfe became The Times’s classical music critic in 2022, after serving as classical music editor since 2015. Prior to joining The Times, he was the opera critic of the New York Observer.

At Opera Saratoga, Edelson brought the quality of productions to a much higher standard and freshened up the repertoire with new and recent works, plus ventures in Baroque and Spanish language operas.

Opera review What a triumph: Seattle Opera conclusively proved that it can handle Handel, with a superb new staging of the composer’s 1735 opera “Alcina,” running through Oct. 28.

Still further ahead, the Classical Opera Company will present another week-long celebration at Kings Place in December, this time for another composer with an anniversary this year: George Frederick ...