Opera is a sung stage drama set to music which usually plays continuously throughout the performance. What is the difference between opera and musicals? Musicals are plays with music; the music is ...

The In Tune A-Z of Opera. Today's letter is R for Recitative. Our guides are Danielle de Niese, Laurence Cummings, Gerald Martin-Moore and Graham Vick. For details of ...

Misogynistic? Dramatically unconvincing? Not at all. The key to understanding the universal truths of Mozart’s opera lie in these very contrivances, writes the director of a new Covent Garden ...

George Loomis on a performance of Hasse’s “Semele” by Haymarket Opera Company in Chicago.