A treasured gem, LA Opera continues to bring world-class talent and artistry in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Giuseppe ...

Outgoing Pittsburgh Opera general director Christopher Hahn discusses his long tenure and its concluding production, Verdi's ...

The Michigan State University College of Music Opera Theatre program produces two operas each academic year. Usually one is a small, chamber type opera and the other is a well known, large opera. This ...

Pittsburgh Opera’s performance of “Falstaff” kicks off this week. The show opens on April 28 at the Benedum Center.

Lusty, foolhardy and hilarious, Sir John Falstaff is the kind of character actors relish sinking their teeth into, and Reginald Smith Jr. makes a meal out of him in Houston Grand Opera’s new ...

In case we had to be reminded—after the Met’s recent Laffont Competition lineup, where three Juilliard singers were among the ...

Reginald Smith, Jr. as the immortal Falstaff. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane When Baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. sings the title role in Falstaff, the last opera ever composed by Giuseppe Verdi, and only ...

Ambrogio Maestri has sung the title role in Verdi’s comedy hundreds of times, most recently for the Paris Opera. He’s also making room for a Puccini tragedy. By Rebecca Schmid For Ambrogio Maestri, a ...

Equally mischievous: Henry Waddington as Falstaff and Louise Winter as Mistress Quickly in Opera North’s production of Verdi’s Falstaff She says this shows they’re aspirational but living ...

Hera Hysesang Park as Nannetta, Ailyn Pérez as Alice, Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly in Verdi’s “Falstaff.” Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera Robert Carsen’s ...

LEBANON, N.H. Verdi's opera "Falstaff" combines Shakespeare's character of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "King Henry IV" to create one of the very few comedies in the golden age of Romantic opera.