On my first day as an usher at ENO, I was an opera novice. Now I’m a director, I realise how backward our attitude the art ...

Italy's Arena di Verona Opera Festival will present six classic opera productions, ballet, and multimedia concerts in its ...

Quick, name seven major ballet and opera stars. If you rattled off a list with Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko, Misty Copeland and Marianela Nuñez, you're a serious arts fan. Congratulations. If you sat ...

Robin Norton-Hale is a multi-award-winning freelance writer and director for theatre, opera and film, currently based between ...

With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become o ...

Riccardo Chailly’s final new production as artistic director is a celebration of Verdi and of a conductor whose relationship with the Milanese audience has clearly deepened over the years.

Met Season To Open With First-Ever Opera By Black Composer "Fire," with a score by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence ...

Opera is alive and kicking. Our critic selects his favourite productions of the past year – and one he loathed Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former Controller ...

Forty years after Andrei Serban's production was first seen, it still thrills audiences... especially starring such an outstanding soprano as Anna Netrebko The plot of Turandot has always struck me as ...

LONDON (AP) — Dozens of Ukrainians and their supporters have demonstrated outside the Royal Opera House in London to protest a performance by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. Protesters outside Thursday ...