Apologies to Schubert, Mendelssohn and a few others: but Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart must stand as music's most supremely gifted melodist. His vast back catalogue includes countless gems from most of the ...

Opera at the Met may mean expensively lavish stagings with the world’s biggest stars, but that’s not all you’ll find at Lincoln Center. Running there now concurrently are revivals of two Mozart ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas are all multifaceted affairs, but none more so than "Cosi fan tutte." Besides the humor, vitality and humanity that all his comedies contain, the work has a ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. At this point there is little to be said about the current Mozart celebrations. Lincoln Center is doing all—every ...

James Conlon has begun his farewell as music director of L.A. Opera, leading Mozart’s “Magic Flute” in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Barrie Kosky’s silent-film-styled staging turns Mozart’s opera ...

Part of 3-Minute Operas. Give WQXR Morning Host Jeff Spurgeon three minutes and he'll give you an entire opera.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The first time Austrian theater and opera director Nikolaus Habjan heard “The Magic Flute,” at age 4, he was smitten, transfixed. He was a busy, restless child, but when he ...

Amarillo Opera is presenting Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" for one night only on Saturday, Oct. 4. The opera, directed locally by Cynthia Stokes, tells a story of love, mischief, and forgiveness ...