The second in a series of open rehearsals this season that are supported by Agnes Varis, a managing director of the Met’s Board of Directors, and her husband, Karl Leichtman, the dress rehearsal ...

Berlioz’s compelling take on the Faust legend returns for the first time in a decade, with an ideal lineup of stars. High-flying tenors Bryan Hymel and Michael Spyres sing the doomed and besotted ...

Tickets: Wheeler Opera House and Harris Concert Hall box offices; http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com Over the course of the Aspen Music Festival’s summer season ...

Once more, the Metropolitan Opera has presented The Damnation of Faust, Berlioz’s work. The last time I saw it at the Met, Olga Borodina was climbing a ladder, looking terribly grim. The great Russian ...

Taking his bow at the opening night curtain call of “The Damnation of Faust,” first-time opera helmer Terry Gilliam shrugged off applause and generously waved towards his creative team. As well he ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Joshua Blue is made for French Romantic opera. The tenor’s ringing bell of a voice softened the consonants and enveloped the vowels in ways no other language would allow, ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Saturday afternoon saw the return of Berlioz's DAMNATION OF FAUST to the ...

Tickets: Wheeler Opera House and Harris Concert Hall box offices; http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com Over the course of the Aspen Music Festival’s summer season ...

I-m James Taylor and this is Theater Talk on KCRW. In 1827, a 24 year-old Frenchman named Hector Berlioz attended a production of Hamlet. He spoke no English but was mesmerized by the play and the ...

work. Too often it’s not the case but, with audacious brilliance, Terry Gilliam overcomes the problems and then some. Whether it’s an opera, an oratorio or “dramatic legend”, and the composer had ...