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 ...
“The Magic Flute” has enchanted audiences ever since it opened in 1791, just months before Mozart’s untimely death. On the surface, “Flute” is a fairy tale about a prince who sets out to rescue a ...
Puccini’s Turandot, with its combination of myth, ritual and emotional extremity, suits dark evenings and the build-up to Christmas, when audiences seem especially ready for spectacle and intensity.
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