NEW YORKNEW YORK — Opera impresarios looking for authentic settings have sometimes gone to the ends of the Earth, presenting Verdi’s “Aida” at the base of the Pyramids and Puccini’s “Turandot” in ...

LA CANTERINA, a two-act opera written by a young Joseph Haydn, premiered in 1767 in the Archbishop’s Summer Palace (today’s Government Office residence) in Bratislava. It is also the earliest opera ...

Wednesday's cast claimed a magnificent Sempronio, the old apothecary, in Richard Ollarsaba, whose bass is not only booming but beautiful. He had the character's eccentricities at his witty command.

Haydn’s comic opera "Il mondo della luna" ("The World on the Moon") opened Tuesday night at the Hayden Planetarium. Richard Termine/The Gotham Chamber Opera/AP IN space, no one can hear you scream — ...

Even before the first notes air, a reconstructed Haydn opera in its U.S. premiere carries at least as much curiosity as it does clout. Yet when Opera at Rutgers in collaboration with Musica Raritana — ...

After a season of dark and tragic stories, the Sarasota Opera closes with much lighter fare that will be new to just about everyone. Joseph Haydn’s “Deceit Unwitted” (or “L’infedelta delusa”) had its ...

Puppet theater was popular during the 18th century. Patrons espoused it, fine composers and writers created for it, the populace came to see it. Haydn's patron, Prince Esterhazy, was no exception, and ...

On Sept 23 and 24, Il mondo della luna (The World of the Moon), an opera by Franz Joseph Haydn, had its Chinese premiere as part of the ongoing Beijing Music Festival. [Photo provided to China Daily] ...

Once again Sarasota Opera will produce a rarely heard work by a major composer when Joseph Haydn’s Deceit Outwitted (L’infedeltà delusa) opens, the last work in the company’s 2024 Winter Opera ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | Gotham Chamber Opera By Anthony Tommasini Haydn at the Hayden. The idea was terrific. Neal Goren, the founding artistic director of the ...

LEUVEN, Belgium (Reuters) - Belgian conductor and early music pioneer Sigiswald Kuijken has brought his anti-modernist approach to Joseph Haydn's opera "L'Isola Disabitata." Kuijken, 72, staged the ...