Opera is a vocally-driven performing art. But this past Tuesday, Ellen Hargis—a “Baroque-music diva” according to The New Yorker—proved that sleight of hand can improve even the most skilled voices.

This week, Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, co-founders of Toronto's Opera Atelier, will be at Penn State University, leading master classes on Baroque operatic technique. A few weeks ...

"DE FACTO, there has been little baroque opera performed in Slovakia," said Martin Bendik, dramaturge with the Slovak National Theatre.The causes are the staging specifications and demanding ...

I've just written a new opera that premiered at the Met in New York. The beauty of that slightly outrageous statement is that it is not entirely untrue. OK, nothing about my new opera is really new.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As they have for decades, 19th-century warhorses like “La Bohème” and “Carmen” still dominate opera- house marquees. But just as today’s diners are ...

NEW HAVEN >> Regular opera can be intimidating to outsiders, until they embrace its great singing, music, drama, comedy and spectacle. But baroque opera? That sounds more obscure and divorced from ...

Over the last 20 years the Paris-based American conductor William Christie has played a central role in resuscitating French Baroque music. But this does not mean that Rameau, Lully and Charpentier ...

It was during the Paul Kellogg era of the nineties and the aughts that New York City Opera became a force for Baroque opera—specifically works by Handel, which, with their historical-mythical plots ...

Fabio Ceresa is the director for Antonio Vivaldi's "Orlando Finto Pazzo" which will be performed until May 14 at the LG Art Center in Seoul. It is a rare piece to be staged anywhere in the world - ...

"So what is contemporary opera?" an acquaintance asks skeptically when I announce what I am working on. Good question. For many, the term is an oxymoron, because for them opera means "grand opera" and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Zachary Woolfe As she walked down the stage, it seemed at first like an illusion. It was near the start of Calixto Bieito’s production of Rameau’s ...