Opera

The Swedish soprano returns to SF Opera to tackle the challenging character of the Dyer’s Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten.

The Seattle organization brilliantly realizes a double bill of operas about the Holocaust by composer Jake Heggie.

Stranger Love, a monumental new opera by Dylan Mattingly, astonishes in its premiere at the LA Phil.

Die Frau ohne Schatten had its U.S. premiere in San Francisco and is a complicated piece to bring to the stage.

The Korean soprano brings her Italian training and experience of motherhood to the role of Cio-Cio-San.

Russell Thomas, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, and Igor Golovatenko make powerful impressions in a well-staged production.

It’s the latest accolade for an opera that continues to wow audiences and critics alike.

Unfolding over six hours, Stranger Love is composer Dylan Mattingly’s attempt at a transformative work that marries philosophical ideas and everyday experience.

The composer talks about For a Look or a Touch and Another Sunrise, presented by Music of Remembrance this month.

Toshi and Bernice Johnson Reagon’s operatic rendering of Octavia Butler’s novel is scarily on point but also musically winning.