Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At its best, opera should be a seamless, balanced fusion of music and theater. A quintessential example of such a blend can be found in the Santa Fe Opera’s ...

Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” which premiered in the shadow of World War I, will break your heart with a score that captures the essence of opera. By Joshua Barone His skill in completing Alban Berg’s “Lulu ...

I was 14 and in hospital with an appendicitis that had turned into peritonitis. The BBC was broadcasting a piece of opera history - the first ever performance of Alban Berg's Lulu in its entirety. It ...

With all of its melodrama and bellicosity, opera has always been a tough nut for avant-garde composers to crack. The very nature of opera demands a certain traditionalism that requires composers to ...

Deborah Warner pulls no punches in her brilliant, audacious production of one of the 20th century’s most important works for the stage, which is also impeccably sung and faultlessly conducted ...

In a critical dialogue, Guardian US’s classical music and art critics review William Kentridge’s triumphantly radical production of Berg’s modernist masterpiece Seth Colter Walls: Hello, Jason! We ...