With opera stories ripped from today’s headlines and a competition between excerpts from contemporary productions, the upcoming Opera Vista Festival will be a bit like “American Idol” meets “Medea.” ...

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Armide is not your usual knight-meets-sorceress romance. Considered the masterpiece of Jean-Baptiste Lully, the dominant figure in late-17th-century French music, Armide premiered at the Paris Opera ...

Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know how you do it,” the tenor recently told BBC Radio 3. In the same interview, ...

In an unusual collaboration for the Met, the opera’s set designer has conceived a companion exhibition, mounted at MoMA.