Opera

Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s The Electronic Lover captures the world of emotions that can exist in the chat room.

Opera Parallèle stages Spears’s Fellow Travelers this month, while Santa Fe Opera is set for the world premiere of The Righteous later this summer.

In the director’s latest opus, a vintage W.E.B. Du Bois story and a classic Baroque opera collide. Here’s why they go together.

Beth Morrison Projects commissioned 14 composers to work on this operatic setting of Marie Howe’s book of poems about womanhood.

Kate Soper’s “philosophy-opera” gets an outstanding production from director James Darrah and Long Beach Opera.

The Finnish composer’s late masterpiece, about a school shooting and its enduring effects, premieres at SF Opera.

Hear how composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell approached the adaptation in a new recording from Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s richly imagined production is a visual feast, though sometimes at the cost of the music and the action.

Thomas is set to premiere Fire and Blue Sky, a song cycle written for him by composer Joel Thompson and poet Imani Tolliver.

The composer has again teamed up with librettist Gene Scheer for this latest commission from the Seattle-based Music of Remembrance.