They’re not called soap operas for nothing. For decades these overripe melodramas may have been steady fare on daytime TV, but they can definitely trace their parentage back to the Romantic opera ...

Anna Netrebko is a soprano fit for a queen. Her sound possesses the opulence and attention-grabbing power of a necklace dripping with jewels. She projects a regal, authoritative presence to match. If ...

The Met came late to Donizetti operas about British queens, when it finally mounted ANNA BOLENA mounted for Anna Netrebko in 2011. This was long after Beverly Sills made her deal with the devil, ...

Devotees of early Romantic Italian opera must have thought they had died and gone to bel canto heaven last week, when two masterpieces of that genre, neither of them overly familiar, opened in ...

Eve Queler's Opera Orchestra of New York has been a fixture at Carnegie Hall for more than three decades. Krassimira Stoyanova (Anna Bolena); Jennifer Larmore (Jane Seymour); James Morris (Henry VIII) ...

The first act of Lyric Opera’s current production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena is visually stunning, vocally impressive, and dramatically compelling. The second act is visually stunning, vocally ...

2 GREY GARDENS Musical Will Return to Melbourne in July Once again, Melbourne Opera is thrilled to be working with Music Director of the former ?Victoria State Opera Richard Divall, who has prepared a ...

Katie Couric arrives for opening night at the Metropolitan Opera. (Stephen Nessen) Martha Stewart arrives at the Met's opening night gala. (Stephen Nessen) Met General Manager Peter Gelb and wife Keri ...

Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, a thoroughly romanticised account of Anne Boleyn’s disastrous destiny, is something difficult to sell in terms of credibility. Whatever knowledge we can have of history, it is ...

Kneeling on stage as she sang the last notes of a heart-rending aria, Anna Netrebko felt the tumultuous applause wash over her — and smiled. It was a break in character for the tragic heroine of ...

Anna Bolena is a tragic opera in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto recounting the life of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII. It ...