Actress Dawn French has begun rehearsals at the Royal Opera House for a role in the comic opera by Gaetano Donizetti La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment). This new production by The ...

OLIVIER Award-winning company English Touring Opera brings an dramatic season of French operas to Durham’s Gala Theatre this October. "These are two of the very best French operas, with compelling ...

In what figures to be a score for refined palettes, the famous 1976 wine tasting in which California selections stunningly triumphed over older French vineyards will be portrayed in the opera “The ...

Throw enough money at opera and this is an art form that can respond with a lavishness no other can match. Louis XIV was certainly not short of cash and the emergence of a national French opera during ...

From Bizet's Carmen to Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, French composers have made an indelible mark on the history of opera. This week on The Opera Show, hear some of the greatest French operatic ...

Jenny Ribeiro is getting ready to storm the Bastille. On July 14 — aka Bastille Day, aka French National Day — she and the non-profit she leads will present an afternoon of French opera at the Grace ...

With the doors to France’s best-loved opera houses closed due to the coronavirus, arts staff are finding admirable new ways to utilise their talents. As thousands of key workers around the world put ...

The earliest documentation of a New Orleans opera performance was in 1796, the opera “Sylvain,” by Andre Gretry.

Paysage Dans L’oubli (Landscape of Oblivion), a French opera written by playwright Olivier Dhénin Hữu, will premiere at the HCM City Opera House on November 26. 'Paysage Dans L’oubli' (Landscape of ...

With a distinctly bright and agile voice, the soprano opera singer Mady Mesplé was one of the most recognised classical singers of the post-war period in France. Mesplé, who has died aged 89, was an ...

Composer Jacopo Peri and poet Ottavio Rinuccini create Dafne, a small-scale pastoral drama featuring stile rappresentativo, a new style of sung dialogue more expressive than speech but less melodious ...