The sloe-eyed beauty who could charm the conqueror into giving her a kingdom—Cleopatra! It’s a tale that has long enthralled Western art and literature, involving as it does a powerful and exotic ...

ST. LOUIS - Along with Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis is a prime summer destination for American opera lovers. In its 49th season, the Missouri festival retains an enterprising identity ...

Opera aficianados who go to Opera Roanoke’s production of “Julius Caesar in Egypt” should not be one bit surprised to see a woman singing the part of the emporer of Rome.

The Houston Grand Opera has announced a 2017-18 season that blends treasured titles such as "La Traviata and "The Barber of Seville" with new adaptations of originally non-operatic works, including ...

Although Handel's opera "Julius Caesar," known as "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" in its native tongue of Italian, is regarded one of his greatest works for the stage, it went out of fashion just like the ...

Julius Caesar is the greatest of Handel’s operas, and one of the greatest of all opera seria; it contains arias which can stand with the finest by Mozart or Verdi in terms of exploration of character ...