Whilst working with my colleague and friend, baritone Gerald Finley, on a production of Bluebeard’s Castle that he was singing at the Met, in between rehearsals I was also spending time with my ageing ...

Memorable performances included a pair of Strauss operas, a suave villain, a star soprano in “Fidelio” and a new conductor in “Le Nozze di Figaro.” By Zachary Woolfe John Adams’s Shakespeare ...

We learn much of what we know about Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s eponymous play through something of a non-entity. Enobarbus tells us that “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her ...

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week. John Adams has written ...

Searing confrontation: the accusation of past horror by Christian (Allan Clayton) dumbfounds parents Helge (Gerald Finley) and Else (Rosie Aldridge) Crucial contributions from regular Jones ...

The San Francisco Opera, celebrating its centennial this season, is optimistically touting the future of opera as a living art form rather than simply recalling the glorious past. In keeping with that ...

This composer’s latest stage work, at San Francisco Opera, is his most straightforward, but also his least inspired. By Zachary Woolfe Though superbly cast, a staging of Mozart’s dark classic updated ...

Grammy-award winning Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley is a leading singer and dramatic interpreter of his generation, with acclaimed performances at the world’s major opera and concert venues and ...