On the heels of her triumphant Met performances as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill, consisting of ...

Assigning the works to different directors and conductors, with only designer takis and lighting designer Mark Jonathan uniting the evening’s halves, does little to foster a sense of dialogue or ...

Opera Holland Park’s final production of the season sees the company doing what it does so well, giving us a Summer evening to treasure with the unearthing of a half-forgotten gem to high musical ...

To bring together again, for the first time since their premiere on a December evening in Moscow, Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta and ballet The Nutcracker, was the audacious challenge that Russian stage ...

It is hard to imagine a more perfect setting than Opera Holland Park for Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s rarely performed Il segreto di Susanna of 1909. This is because the Royal Opera House would be too large ...

LAKE PLACID – The Lake Placid Center for the Arts continues the 2014-2015 Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series with two rarely performed one-acts “Iolanta” and “Bluebeard’s Castle.” The screening will ...

Tchaikovsky was happier with his final opera, "Iolanta," than with "The Nutcracker" after the works premiered together on Dec. 18, 1892. History disagreed: "Iolanta" is now rarely performed outside ...