Watch highlights from the Met Opera's production of Falstaff, now on stage through April 1st. Verdi's glorious Shakespearean comedy features a brilliant ensemble cast in Robert Carsen's celebrated ...

Lusty, foolhardy and hilarious, Sir John Falstaff is the kind of character actors relish sinking their teeth into, and Reginald Smith Jr. makes a meal out of him in Houston Grand Opera’s new ...

Translating Shakespeare to a new style is a theatrical tradition as time honored as the Bard himself. In the last couple of years, Oregon Shakespeare Festival has produced Coriolanus in Portland with ...

Reginald Smith, Jr. as the immortal Falstaff. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane When Baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. sings the title role in Falstaff, the last opera ever composed by Giuseppe Verdi, and only ...

In Steppenwolf Theatre’s “Amadeus,” running through January, Antonio Salieri is the villain. That play and its 1984 film adaptation repeated fictions that have tarred the composer’s reputation for ...

Hera Hysesang Park as Nannetta, Ailyn Pérez as Alice, Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly in Verdi’s “Falstaff.” Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera Robert Carsen’s ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with a special artist’s choice broadcast selected by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Verdi’s ...

Reginald Smith. Jr. and Nicole Heaston in Falstaff at Houston Grand Opera. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane If you want to know what walking on air sounds like, turn your attention to Giuseppe Verdi’s last ...

As a soprano and baritone, respectively, Karen Kanakis and Jacob Lassetter don’t often get to reprise their real-life roles as husband and wife on stage. More often, if they happen to be working ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Michael Volle puts his noble voice to delightfully undignified use as the title character in Robert Carsen’s still fresh production of ...

Generally, it's said, people tend become more serious with the passing years. But after producing such dramatic masterpieces as "La Traviata," "Aida" and "Il Trovatore," the great Italian composer ...