We're less easily shocked today. But watching Florentine Opera's new production of "Carmen," it's easy to see what startled its Parisian audience when Bizet's opera debuted in 1875. Carmen's brazen ...

Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, The University of Western Australia As the overture ends, the red curtains at His Majesty’s Theatre rise to reveal a flat, white floor-to-ceiling ...

Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies is, arguably, the ultimate Broadway musical, so it is hardly surprising that Northern Ireland Opera would have it firmly on its to-do list. But gone are ...

Few do spectacle as well as Cameron Mackintosh. And his rejiggered version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” is as much a spectacle as it was when Mackintosh first produced it nearly ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Rameau’s “Les Indes Galantes” was designed to show the triumph of Enlightenment order over the exotic “other.” Can hip-hop dance make it feel less ...