Sharlene Wells had to stop laughing before she could respond to an email about potentially taking part in an upcoming Utah ...

Tara Faircloth explains how themes of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” transcend time.

Sharlene Wells (Oracle) walked out on stage and opened the scene, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. This is the world premiere ...

It is the Metropolitan Opera’s job, some of us think, to gather the best singers in the world, in the roles that suit them. I thought of this last night when the Met revived Fidelio, Beethoven’s opera ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...