Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Robert Carsen’s Tosca is a diva’s diva, Maria Callas crossed with Marilyn Monroe and spiced with Jessica Rabbit. This ...

Andreas Homoki’s detailed staging focuses on compelling and clear storytelling, and, with Gianandrea Noseda bringing energy and directness to Wagner’s music, this is a fresh and intelligent new cycle ...

Traveling to opera premieres, even if the opera house in question shows a seasoned hand at treating journalists exceedingly well, can be a bummer. For every traveled mile, expectations sneakily, ...

BroadwayWorld is excited to expand its popular feature series outside the U.S. borders setting our sights on showcasing performance companies around the world! Each month we will introduce you to an ...

The Opernhaus Zurich is Switzerland’s largest cultural institution. As a joint-stock company with more than 2,400 private shareholders, it has remained in private hands to this day. Wilhelm ...

Grammy and ECHO Klassik Award-winning conductor Fabio Luisi continues to dominate the international stage in 2014-15. In his third season as General Music Director of the Zurich Opera, where the ...

When the curtain descended on the last night of Bernard Haitink‘s tenure as Music Director of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden in 2002 he informed the press that it had also descended on his operatic ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary – BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Laszlo Polgar, a Hungarian bass and member of the Zurich Opera, died on Sunday. He was 63. Polgar died in Zurich, Hungarian State Opera spokeswoman Judit ...

ZURICH — At the second performance of the Zurich Opera House’s new production of Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell,” there were boos before the first notes of the overture even sounded. The curtain rose on a ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The exorcisms, orgies and self-mutilation that feature in Prokofiev’s 1920s opera The Fiery Angel have proved ...