44 stories by "Zachary Woolfe"
This opera based on a short story by Judy Budnitz will be performed at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Jan. 9-11.
Matthias Schulz will take over from Jurgen Flimm at the Berlin Staatsoper. At 37, he's a young choice.
In this revival of Mary Zimmerman's grayly atmospheric production, there is an empty space where Lucia ought to be.
From “God Bless America” to “The White Cliffs of Dover,” Kate Smith rallied generations. Stephanie Blythe, in a tribute, threatens to outdo her.
AS the motorcade carrying the body of Leonard Bernstein passed through Brooklyn on its way to Green-Wood Cemetery 20 years ago, construction workers removed their yellow hard hats and called…
The program will be directed by Luis Perez, an actor and choreographer who has led the musical theater program at Roosevelt University since 2008.
Mr. Barnes will begin work on June 1.
For a new production of "The Merry Widow," to be uncorked on New Year's Eve, the Met has turned to Ms. Stroman, the winner of five Tony Awards.
It's not unusual in the history of opera for a singer to gaze longingly at the wider world of performance, especially movies.
The Kate Soper musical-theater work "I Was Here I Was I" centers on the history of the Temple of Dendur.
Stephen Wadsworth presents two Beaumarchais plays in Princeton, N.J., set solidly in the late 18th century but adapted to help contemporary audiences understand the times. &…
The N.F.L. and Fox deserve credit for thinking outside the usual pop-music box in selecting the opera singer Renée Fleming to perform the national anthem at this year's Super Bowl.
In "Tragedy of a Friendship," Jan Fabre creates a mash-up of Wagner operas, based on his friendship with Nietzsche.
Valery Gergiev leads a two-and-a-half-hour performance at the Mariinsky II in St. Petersburg, Russia.
"I Am an Opera," by Joseph Keckler, finds that a bad hallucinogenic mushroom trip can have many side effects. One is opera.
In "The Hunchback Variations," at 59E59 Theaters, a noted composer and a noted hunchback come together to find a solution to Chekhov's vague stage direction from "The Cherry Orchard."
The Catalan director Calixto Bieito has a reputation for being provocative. American audiences will get a chance to see for themselves with "Camino Real," at the Goodman in Chicago.
Is Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" an opera or a musical? A Tanglewood production made clear that the work is not a mistake to be fixed but a challenge to be met.
The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players presented the one-act "Trial by Jury" and "G&S Ã la Carte" Sunday night at Symphony Space.
