If purists bristle at the notion that George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess is an opera, imagine what they’ll say when they discover that Long Beach Opera is presenting Queenie Pie, “Duke Ellington’s only ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — The grand, gilded Hungarian State Opera House here is where Brahms once heard Mahler conduct Mozart. It’s where Bartok’s still-shocking “Bluebeard’s Castle” had its premiere a ...

The curtain was about to go up on Jake Heggie's "The End of the Affair" at the Seattle Opera when Speight Jenkins, the company's voluble general director, got onto the topic of "Doctor Atomic," which ...