Yes, there's life after the Ring cycle for Canadian Opera Company. The troupe's splendid new production of the difficult "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" proves that its impressive mounting of the Wagner ...

For weeks we had been discussing whether to take the kids to Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the opera now seething across the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. We had season tickets for them, and our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at the Gran Teatre de Liceu, Barcelona - Sergi Panizo Fotografia In January 1994, a random electrical ...

Granted, going to the composer's brilliant, stunning and, yes, demanding, LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK is not like going to LA TRAVIATA or TOSCA--or even MEDEA or IDOMENEO, which preceded it in the Met's ...

Russian soprano Svetlana Sozdateleva, appearing for the first time at the Met, takes on the role Katerina Ismailova, whose forbidden romance leads to murder and devastation in this thrilling work.

From left, Brandon Jovanovich (as Sergei), Nikolai Schukoff (Zinovy Ismailov) and Svetlana Sozdateleva (Katerina Ismailova) in a dress rehearsal of Metropolitan Opera production of Dmitri Shostakovich ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues on WJOP this weekend with “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” in a performance from last fall. Shostakovich’s dark ...

Who’s to say whether the new directorate at English National Opera would have sanctioned importing Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s flaky Deutsche Oper staging, already a known quantity when former artistic ...

On stage the New Orleans-raised Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet proves a powerful if one-dimensional actress in the title-role. Her Wagnerian declamation could scythe through the massed bands of a May Day ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

A jinx has hung over Shostakovich's most important opera. The first succeeded in banning the work in the Soviet Union and its satellites until long after Stalin's demise. The most recent cost the Los ...