Opera

Every detail of performance and staging contributes to making Michael Cavanagh’s reimagined production a feast for the ears and eyes.

An all-star cast, including Renée Fleming, sings splendidly, but the show skirts many of the issues it raises.

The in-demand baritone plays himself in a cabaret-style, one-man show in Pasadena.

Michael Cavanagh’s new production looks to find central themes about American society in The Marriage of Figaro and the two other Mozart-Da Ponte operas.

Shamisen player Hidejiro Honjoh anchors a program that is crowned by Hiroya Miura’s dazzling mini opera.

The soprano talks about her meteoric rise and her SF Opera debut as Susanna in Figaro.

Carson and the Crawleys meet Gilbert & Sullivan in this festive fundraiser at Herbst.

The Broadway baritone talks Light in the Piazza at LA Opera and a path not taken at the Met years ago.

The beloved soprano ranges from intimate classics to new operatic works in recital with pianist Richard Bado.

A new chamber opera pulled from the headlines packs a wallop.