Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At its best, opera should be a seamless, balanced fusion of music and theater. A quintessential example of such a blend can be found in the Santa Fe Opera’s ...

A scene from the New York Metropolitan Opera’s production of Alban Berg’s Lulu. (Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

His skill in completing Alban Berg’s “Lulu” almost 40 years after Berg’s death was considered one of the greatest operatic achievements of the 20th century. By David Allen Singers tended to fade into ...

One might be forgiven for thinking that stories about those marginalised in society – the outsiders – are something new, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Büchner’s bleak play about a ...

With all of its melodrama and bellicosity, opera has always been a tough nut for avant-garde composers to crack. The very nature of opera demands a certain traditionalism that requires composers to ...

Begun in 1914 and premiered in 1925, Wozzeck has class struggle, poverty and mental health problems as its principal subjects. By Caroline Crampton When I was 12 years old, I made a devastating ...