On a chilly afternoon earlier this month, in the basement of the Minnesota Opera building, the Angel in White performed while Méphistophélès looked on. Was hell freezing over? Hardly. Natalie Desch, a ...

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival is an exciting new dance event taking place throughout March in partnership with the Royal Opera House, Tate Modern and Sadlers Wells, showcasing ...

Even in the best of times, opera and dance are endangered art forms. Their audiences are loyal but small, and not necessarily growing. Yet they persevere because there will always be a core ...

A little minuet in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, a hip-swinging processional in Verdi’s Aida, a ballroom waltz in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin — until fairly recently, that, generally speaking, was ...

A criticism that is often leveled at the performing arts is that these aesthetic frameworks have grown out of touch with modern audiences. And yet, a cursory glance of what’s ahead this fall season ...

CANYON — Two sets of lovers find their relationships tested by lies, disguises and more than a bit of good old fashioned sexism in West Texas A&M University Opera’s spring performance. Wolfgang ...

Back in the early 1960s, Brazilian-influenced musical styles were all the rage of the jazz world, occasionally crossing over onto the pop music charts as well. Songs incorporating Brazilian sambas and ...