An interview with the filmmakers behind the documentary ‘Ai Weiwei’s Turandot’ about how they explored art with a message.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A youth orchestra program for musicians as young as 8 is part of Paris Opera’s effort to widen access to the art form and secure its future. By ...

EXCLUSIVE: FX has opted not to proceed with a third season of its comedy English Teacher. The news comes a month and a half after Season 2 of the series created by Brian Jordan Alvarez was released.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by After his musical “The Last Ship” failed on Broadway, Sting is bringing a revised version to the Met as the house looks for new sources of revenue. By ...

Jake Heggie’s work, premiered 25 years ago and staged 80 times around the world to date, isn’t perfect. It starts with a haunting, lopsided flow not a million miles away from the opening of Britten’s ...

It won’t whip the llama’s ass, but Opera has added a Spotify visualizer to its latest iteration of its free Opera One browser. Known as Sonic, the visualizer will be part of Opera’s Dynamic Themes, ...

The Monkey King is beloved in Chinese mythology and has appeared in everything from a 16th-century epic to modern comics, animated movies and video games – even in poetry by Mao Zedong. Now, he is the ...

Tracks like Tonight, Tonight," "1979," and "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" were transformed for a full operatic cast and orchestra. By Jessica Lynch Billy Corgan debuted the long-anticipated operatic ...

There’s a new hero in the world of opera, one with amazing superpowers, an unstoppable mission — and a tail. “The Monkey King,” created by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, hearkens ...

Composer Huang Ruo long dreamed of adapting the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West” and its mythical character the Monkey King into an opera, but thought that ambition was a pipe dream. “I grew ...

Can the pop star help salvage the beleaguered Metropolitan opera house by putting on a show of his own? By Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, Editors The fat lady hasn’t quite sung for Manhattan’s ...

It already has the legendary Sunday Fischmarkt, the epic concert hall Elbphilharmonie and glorious city beach bar StrandPauli, and now Hamburg will become home to a brand-new, world-class opera house ...