Lucy Worsley explores the history behind some of the world's greatest operas - ones that reflected the lives, hopes and fears of the people living in the cities they were written in.
Do you have particular feelings about this piece and its place in the operatic canon? It is one of my favorite operas — really, some of the best 90 minutes of music in the history of opera. The way ...
The opera is not about Lorca’s life ... as real events become history, and history becomes art. Colker ends her production with one of Lorca’s poems, spoken by Nuria, as if to address this ...
The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera debuted in 1988, winning seven Tony Awards® including Best Musical. Based on Gaston Leroux’s ...
A new Peking Opera production titled "100-Plus Years of Shougang" was staged at the Chang'an Grand Theater in Beijing from Nov. 1-3, offering a dramatic telling of the glorious history of China's iron ...