NEW YORK — The best that can be said for some recent Metropolitan Opera productions — “Samson et Dalila” and “Tosca,” I’m looking at you — is that they don’t actively hinder the works being performed.

In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly give a quick overview of Arrigo Boito’s operatic treatment of the Faust story. Taking the entirety of Goethe’s ...

Opera Southwest is bringing “Mefistofele” to New Year’s Eve. Composer Arrigo Boito’s 1868 opera will be the concert centerpiece of the Sunday, Dec. 31, performance at the National Hispanic Cultural ...

Recorded live in October 2013, Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov, whose "voice is massive...his singing...piping hot, precise and stinging" (San Jose Mercury News) is Mefistofele. In his staged role debut ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Following the success of their production of ‘Mefistofele’ back in 2015, the Knoxville Opera will once again stage the famous Italian opera at the historic Tennessee Theatre.

Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito (there are several completed operas for which he ...

MOUNT VERNON — Although Halloween has passed, Pacific Northwest Opera is keeping the ghoulish spirit of fall alive with its second weekend of “Mefistofele,” an Italian opera about a deal with the ...

In the first scene of the opera "Mefistofele," 138 singers, dancers, children and extras cram the stage, in matching white robes and matching masks. The spectacle lasts 25 minutes, and on opening ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — COVID-19 led to theatre closures throughout the nation, and in East Tennessee, the Knoxville Opera has not had a fully-staged opera in two years. Now the opera is inviting ...

The spectacular Robert Carsen production returns to the Met for the first time since 2000, with bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the diabolical title character, tenor Michael Fabiano as Faust, and ...