Rollando VILLAZON is a white-hot Romeo. The electricity this zealous young Mexican tenor generates noticeably excited just about everyone in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night. Everyone, ...

If you’re a certain type of opera lover — a guy, say, or maybe a girl — you may want to sit in the front row for Los Angeles Opera’s new production of Massenet’s “Manon.” You see there’s this very ...

Mexico City — ROLANDO VILLAZON HAS THE OPERA WORLD ON A STRING. The young Mexican tenor just completed a fairy tale year, with acclaimed debuts at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden in ...

NEW YORK -- It should have been the most glamorous of nights at the opera: the return of Russian superstar soprano Anna Netrebko, reunited with her longtime stage partner, tenor Rolando Villazon.

All four parts of Wagner’s epic were presented within a week, in a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov inspired by the work’s experimental roots. By Joshua Barone A winning cast opened the company’s ...

Giacomo Puccini, "La Boheme" (Deutsche Grammophon): With at least a dozen recordings of Puccini's "La Boheme" readily available from Amazon.com, why another? The answer lies in the commercial ...

La Boheme-- It would take a lot to ruin a production of Puccini’s masterpiece, "La Boheme," although one or two "concept" stagings have tried. Director Robert Dornhelm, admittedly not an opera ...

Maybe Rodolfo is right. Maybe Mimi is an incorrigible flirt. In most productions of Puccini's "La Boheme," we meet the seamstress Mimi demurely asking the poet Rodolfo to light her candle. Robert ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Director Robert Dornhelm’s movie version of Puccini’s most beloved opera, “La Boheme,” is a handsome piece of work, using lavish sets and costumes to bring bohemian Paris of the ...

This year was the bicentenary of the birth of two of the 19th century's most important opera composers – Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. It's a real sign of the difficult times for the record ...

At the peak of her powers, free to choose what she records, engaged to one of the world’s most exciting singers and expecting her first baby, Anna Netrebko tells Classic FM that life has never felt so ...