The Juilliard Opera season continues with a concert version and a fully staged production of G.F. Handel's Agrippina, presented by Juilliard as part of Carnegie Hall's La Serenissima: Music and Arts ...

For over four centuries, the Orpheus myth has inspired opera composers. One was Luigi Rossi, whose 1647 retelling deserves more attention. By Anthony Tommasini The period band Juilliard415 and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Turn of the Screw was Britten's final chamber opera and was written in just ...

NEW YORK — When it had its premiere in Paris in 1733, Rameau’s “Hippolyte et Aricie” set off a war in French opera. You had to choose sides: Were you an old-fogey “lulliste” — a partisan of Lully, the ...

The minimal staging demands of Benjamin Britten’s second opera (1946), a stiffly handled but lyrically affecting examination of love and honor in ancient Rome, make it a perennial favorite for ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our guest, percussionist Patti Niemi, got a clue about her calling when she was 10 years old and her school gave a music aptitude test to see whether students should be encouraged ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Francesco Cavalli was a wicked exception to the rule of self-seriousness in early opera, freely blending drama, comedy, and sexual innuendo in his works. Juilliard’s production of this Venetian ...

Opera Columbus has a new collaboration with The Juilliard School. We follow Opera Columbus’ Peggy Kriha Dye as she journeys to The Juilliard School in New York City to observe some of the school’s ...

Patti Niemi has been a percussionist for the San Francisco Opera Orchestra since 1992. She speaks with Fresh Air's Sam Briger about performance anxiety, muscle memory and her memoir, Sticking it Out.