A Genre-Hopping Triumph: “The Rabbits”
What is opera? This is a question that has engaged puzzled commentators and practitioners since...
Read MorePosted by Michael Halliwell | 18th Oct 2015 | Australia, Design, Review, Theatre and Opera
What is opera? This is a question that has engaged puzzled commentators and practitioners since...
Read MorePosted by Peter Tregear | 5th Jul 2015 | Essay, London, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
As an art form routinely accused of contemporary irrelevancy, opera rarely makes headline news....
Read MorePosted by Oleg Serdobolsky | 21st Jun 2015 | Review, Russia, Theatre and Opera
The troupe of the Mariinsky Theater will present a new version of Giuseppe Verdi’s La...
Read MorePosted by Oleg Krasnov - Russia Beyond Headlines | 22nd Apr 2015 | News, Russia, Theatre and Opera
U.S. director’s staging of Purcell’s, The Indian Queen, dominates annual ceremony in Moscow....
Read MorePosted by RBTH | 31st Mar 2015 | News, Russia, Theatre and Opera
Boris Mezdrich’s production of Wagner opera offended Orthodox activists. Boris Mezdrich, the...
Read MorePosted by Yekaterina Sinelschikova | 14th Mar 2015 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Opera
A lawsuit filed by a local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church against the director of the...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 4th Mar 2015 | Essay, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Theatre and Opera
Polish classical musicians and opera singers have always enjoyed global renown, with singers such...
Read MorePosted by Ilana Walder-Biesanz | 25th Jan 2015 | Germany, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Opera
Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera is much more of a musical than an opera. But it decidedly...
Read MorePosted by Michael Halliwell | 3rd Dec 2014 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Opera
In any Opera History 101 course, Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) is cited as one of the...
Read MorePosted by Iryna Chuzhynova | 10th Nov 2014 | News, Russia, Theatre and Opera
The premiere of the opera Coriolanus based on a play by Shakespeare and staged by Vlad Troitsky is...
Read MorePosted by Marcina Zaccaria | 1st Nov 2014 | Germany, News, Theatre and Opera
Theatre and Opera Editor Marcina Zaccaria spoke with actor Jeff Burchfield in 2014, who was...
Read MorePosted by Yaroslav Timoféyev | 31st Oct 2014 | Review, Russia, Theatre and Opera
St. Petersburg company returns to the UK with classic works contrasting Russian characters with...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 28th Jan 2014 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
BLO: What is a dramaturg? MR: In its broadest and earliest definition, dramaturgy means a...
Read MorePosted by Pauline Tillmann | 6th Jun 2013 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Opera
The new Mariinsky Theatre is a site of pilgrimage in St. Petersburg. Ballet and opera enthusiasts...
Read MorePosted by Nora Fitzgerald | 11th Apr 2013 | News, Russia, Theatre and Opera
The Washington National Opera and the Bolshoi Theatre enter the third year of an artist exchange...
Read MorePosted by Agata Diduszko-Zyglewska | 30th Aug 2010 | Interview, Poland, Theatre and Opera
I didn’t really know Xenakis before, but it turned out that he touches the precise parts of my...
Read MorePosted by Tomasz Cyz | 14th Aug 2010 | Essay, Poland, Theatre and Opera
Jan Kott wrote that in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, history is shown as a nightmare, something that...
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