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.

Dec. 25—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 ...

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 ...

For a charismatic fellow who's usually cast as ne'er-do-wells--if not downright villains--and is quite good at making you love to hate him, in person, rising star bass-baritone Christian Van Horn ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — From the moment the devil climbs out of the pit — the orchestra pit — and onto the stage at War Memorial Opera House, one gets the sense that San Francisco Opera’s season-opening ...

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 ...