His full-bodied countertenor voice is rich in the low register and impressively resonant above the second passaggio. Read ...

Orpha Phelan’s fun but confusing staging for the London Handel festival aligns the opera’s characters with recognisable famous figures. Fine singers and players led by Laurence Cummings ensure ...

Tamerlano, tyrannical Emperor of the Tartars, is a burger-munching boor with a golf-habit, a bulbous belly and a crashing disdain for other people’s sensitivities. In Orpha Phelan’s dynamic, gleefully ...

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Cambridge Handel Opera Company capture the self-referential charm of this mid-career novelty operetta Any opera with two pairs of young lovers inevitably gets compared to Così fan tutte. But in the ...

With its production of this work by Handel, the Cambridge Handel Opera Company can claim two distinctions: staging a rarely performed opera, and doing so in a Georgian-era venue that is infrequently ...

The opera and ballet communities are firing back at Timothée Chalamet after the “Marty Supreme” star said during “A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event” that he didn’t want theatrical movie going to end up ...

Ballet and opera companies around the world have called out Timothée Chalamet following the actor’s less-than-complimentary remarks about the art forms in a recent interview. In February, Chalamet and ...

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The opera, created by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, in collaboration with director and choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, tells the story of Civil War-era spies Mary Jane Bowser, ...