The English Civil War provides obstacles to Bellini’s lovers, but instead of amping up the drama, the additional history ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

It’s a let-down when a new production of an opera that spends two acts feeling dazzlingly invigorating and clever collapses in a careless mess in the third. My guess is that a key scene for the ...

AMHERST — Opera channels our clearest emotions: those so innate that they splash out in naive singsong, and those so deep that, when released, they can only bear to be sung. “The Onion,” with a ...

Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” is always a challenge: How does a director interpret its superficially misogynistic story—on a bet, two unsuspecting women are manipulated into trading lovers, the assumption ...