Across the centuries, the story of Salome has been staged, scored, adapted, pushed and pulled in a welter of ways, always finding new ways to shock. On Sunday, the curtain went up on Richard Strauss’s ...

The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden opened its fourth revival of David McVicar’s famous 2008 production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” one day after the death of the Queen of England in 2022 ...

Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know how you do it,” the tenor recently told BBC Radio 3. In the same interview, ...

LONDON (AP) — There’s a new generation this season at the Royal Opera in London, where Jakub Hrůša took over after Antonio Pappano’s 22-year reign as music director, and Speranza Scappucci became the ...

Royal Opera sees generation change as Jakub Hrůša and Speranza Scappucci come in LONDON (AP) — There’s a new generation this season at the Royal Opera in London, where Jakub Hrůša took over after ...

Turnage’s operatic work may have been uneven over the years, but his radical adaptation with Lee Hall of Thomas Vinterberg’s first Dogma 95 film, integrating a magnificent role for the Royal Opera ...

The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced its 2026 Summer Season, featuring two special programmes curated by Royal Ballet stars Marianela Nuñez and Carlos Acosta. The performances will take place at ...

The Royal Opera House’s Turandot has now been running so long it feels less like a revival and more like a listed structure. You don’t attend it so much as pass through it, like a familiar corridor or ...

EXCLUSIVE: Following successful runs at the Royal Opera House in London and the LA Phil, the buzzy English-language opera Last Days has been adapted for the big screen by artist and filmmaker Matt ...