The sloe-eyed beauty who could charm the conqueror into giving her a kingdom—Cleopatra! It’s a tale that has long enthralled Western art and literature, involving as it does a powerful and exotic ...

The Houston Grand Opera has announced a 2017-18 season that blends treasured titles such as "La Traviata and "The Barber of Seville" with new adaptations of originally non-operatic works, including ...

Opera aficianados who go to Opera Roanoke’s production of “Julius Caesar in Egypt” should not be one bit surprised to see a woman singing the part of the emporer of Rome.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis makes a practice of reviving underperformed contemporary operas. This season’s example is Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002), a chamber piece that examines the ...

It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has ...