Vasil Garvanliev is excited about playing his first bad guy in opera. And what a bad guy: as the character Kaspar in Opera Atelier’s Der Freischütz (The Marksman), which opened Oct. 27 at the Elgin ...

When it comes to German romantic opera, it’s hard to overestimate the importance of Carl Maria von Weber. “It’s the start of everything,” says Stephen Lawless, director of the Virginia Opera’s version ...

Initially it is just for the cameras, but when the doors finally open, it will be ready to go. The production is directed and designed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. He has spent the last 20 years cultivating ...

Virginia Opera, staging a German opera hardly ever performed in the United States, boldly makes it its own, setting this tale of the supernatural in the first half of the 19th century in America.

With brooding landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and hellish paintings of Hieronymus Bosch as backdrops, the University of Houston's Moores Opera Center dived into the fantasy world of 19th-century ...

Come early for Opera UpClose! Held 45 minutes before every performance, this entertaining look “behind the scenes” will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the opera.

What has replaced the forest as a common domain for allegorical storytelling, supernatural atmosphere and levelling retribution? For German director Philipp Rosendahl, the answer is Nordic Noir. His ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. This weekend, March 21 and 22, Utopia Opera presents the rarely-performed ...

The overture to Carl Maria von Weber’s opera “Der Freischütz” (“The Marksman”) calls up the dusky shadows and sylvan aromas of the German hinterland. It trumpets the glory of an autumn day spent ...

The production is directed and designed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. He has spent the last 20 years cultivating a reputation as an enfant terrible. The result, ironically, is that he has developed a clearly ...