Opera is considered by many to be the ultimate art form. An eclectic combination of vocal and orchestral music, drama, and emotion, it certainly is the most complete and complex form of art there is.

Operas of the Baroque take front and centre on this week's The Opera Show. Enjoy some of the finest Baroque opera scenes from composers such as Handel, Lully, Gluck, Purcell, Rameau, Vivaldi, ...

Sydney-based Pinchgut Opera is internationally praised for research-driven revivals of baroque opera gems with an acute attention to historically-informed interpretation of the music. In this ...

WHERE can American artists direct opera at the moment? For the puppetry prodigy Basil Twist, the answer was France. At the Opéra Comique in Paris, Twist has been busy readying a new staging of ...

Fabio Ceresa is the director for Antonio Vivaldi's "Orlando Finto Pazzo" which will be performed until May 14 at the LG Art Center in Seoul. It is a rare piece to be staged anywhere in the world - ...

'Baroque Heroines' featuring Sharon Carty (mezzo-soprano), David Adams (harpsichord) & Norah O’Leary (cello) comes to Castletown House in Kildare on Friday, October 30 2026.

For this year’s Hanwha Classic, French Baroque takes center stage in a one-woman opera performed by renowned French soprano Patricia Petibon and Ensemble Amarillis, performing in Korea for the first ...

It took six years and $32 million, but the Margravial Opera House in Bavaria, Germany, is as bright, colorful, and opulent as it was almost 300 years ago. The Free State of Bavaria invested a total of ...

The more you ponder the organic marriage of music and dance in Orphée⁺, Against the Grain Theatre’s co-production with Opera Columbus and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the more you begin ...

Italian and English Baroque operas have gained popularity in the UK in recent decades – helped along by some inspired productions by Glyndebourne and English National Opera. Now, following fascinating ...

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