The home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling ...

La Traviata is significant in the context of Chinese opera history. In 1956, the China National Opera House staged an all-Chinese production at Beijing's Tianqiao Theater, making it one of the first ...

Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...

The pair met back in 2013 when they were competing in a singing competition in Verona, Italy. She won a prize and he did not.

So the Royal Opera had assembled a dream cast, conductor (Edward Gardner) and director (Richard Jones). The only question ...