An opera by a Ukrainian composer that premiered in Kyiv this week tells the story of two ​mothers and a grandmother who risked their lives to travel 3,000 miles (4,800 km) to occupied Crimea to rescue ...

Amid a talented ensemble, José Pablo Castro Cuevas delivers the performance of a lifetime in the Russian story of a tragic ...

Drugs, guns and burning lust. Victorian Opera’s striking new production of The Coronation of Poppea lays bare the ruthless pursuit of power, at the Palais ...

On my first day as an usher at ENO, I was an opera novice. Now I’m a director, I realise how backward our attitude the art ...

Italy's Arena di Verona Opera Festival will present six classic opera productions, ballet, and multimedia concerts in its ...

Quick, name seven major ballet and opera stars. If you rattled off a list with Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko, Misty Copeland and Marianela Nuñez, you're a serious arts fan. Congratulations. If you sat ...

Poland backs Slovakia’s ombudsman, Slovakia exit the hockey worlds, and Japan’s ambassador rides the train to Bratislava.

Robin Norton-Hale is a multi-award-winning freelance writer and director for theatre, opera and film, currently based between ...

With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become o ...

Riccardo Chailly’s final new production as artistic director is a celebration of Verdi and of a conductor whose relationship with the Milanese audience has clearly deepened over the years.

Met Season To Open With First-Ever Opera By Black Composer "Fire," with a score by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence ...

Opera is alive and kicking. Our critic selects his favourite productions of the past year – and one he loathed Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former Controller ...