Reading a director’s rationale before watching their take on a classic can blunt the freshness of one’s responses. But there are times when some preliminary swotting is essential, and so it is with ...

“Even divine nature needs its diminuendos and morendos, in order to come to life again and rise up, heading for a great crescendo, attaining her strength and stature once more in a mighty ff ...

Houston Grand Opera scores one of its greatest triumphs of recent seasons with its revelatory production of Dvorak's enchanting "Rusalka." Magical transformations abound - and we're not refering just ...

A lush musical score, a stellar cast of singers, imaginative set design, fine choreography — what more could an opera company ask from a production? A full house, perhaps? Whole rows of empty seats ...

The organ played by composer Antonin Dvorak during his stay in Spillville in 1893 is on display at the museum. (Adam Wesley/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

Here’s some tragedy for you: Picture Sondra Radvanovsky, the celebrity soprano who’s earned her fame with her extraordinary voice, standing downstage centre of Four Seasons Centre for the Performing ...

Before there was ever the Disney version of The Little Mermaid, there was Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka, with a similar, but much darker, story of a water nymph who gives up the life she’s ...