For weeks we had been discussing whether to take the kids to Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the opera now seething across the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. We had season tickets for them, and our ...

From left, Brandon Jovanovich (as Sergei), Nikolai Schukoff (Zinovy Ismailov) and Svetlana Sozdateleva (Katerina Ismailova) in a dress rehearsal of Metropolitan Opera production of Dmitri Shostakovich ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues on WJOP this weekend with “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” in a performance from last fall. Shostakovich’s dark ...

In January 1994, a random electrical spark started a fire that destroyed much of Barcelona’s famous Liceu opera house, once the biggest in Europe. It took until 1999 to rebuild the theatre with a ...

Russian soprano Svetlana Sozdateleva, appearing for the first time at the Met, takes on the role Katerina Ismailova, whose forbidden romance leads to murder and devastation in this thrilling work.

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For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

MILAN – The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala cheered the season premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk '' with a 12-minute standing ovation Sunday, as the storied theater ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The company started its season performing “Medea,” “Idomeneo” and “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” three of opera’s most distinctive ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” by Dmitri Shostakovich, a tale of love and betrayal once banned in Soviet Russia, is returning to the Metropolitan Opera. By ...

Who’s to say whether the new directorate at English National Opera would have sanctioned importing Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s flaky Deutsche Oper staging, already a known quantity when former artistic ...