Ideas tumble out and collide in Yuval Sharon’s "A New Philosophy of Opera" (Liveright). The out American director, deemed a maverick by many, steps off stage to deliver his manifesto about keeping ...

A new production at New York’s Metropolitan Opera sounds and looks different from anything presented at the venerable opera ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Was it the music of Rossini, Puccini or Bellini that grabbed the attention of “Italian Idol” judges?

In a rare case of an author adapting her own work for the stage, the author is the librettist of a bilingual opera now taking ...