SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY—Opera Saratoga’s double bill of contemporary operas for its annual Summer Festival is a showcase for the company’s 29-member Young Artist Program. This year’s offerings included David T. Little and … » Read

KIEV, UKRAINE--For more than 20 years the Ravenna Festival ’s Roads of Friendship ( Vie dell’amicizia) has sent a group of Italian and other European musicians on an annual trip to countries afflicted by war, political unrest, natural … » Read

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE—Determined to stay young on its 70th birthday, France’s premier opera festival has opened with a trio of modern-dress updates. Simon McBurney’s video-heavy and much-travelled production of Mozart’s … » Read

LONDON--Staging an opera on ice in the middle of a heatwave was a nice piece of happenstance for Garsington Opera, presenting the world premiere of David Sawer’s The Skating Rink on Jul. 5. Garsington has become a friend of new music, last … » Read

LEWES, U.K.—Young American baritone John Chest has been carving a name for himself in Europe recently, not least in some exquisite accounts of the French mélodie repertory, so to hear him sing Pelléas at Glyndebourne was one … » Read

If Siegfried highlights director Francesca Zambello’s ability to tease out vital, three-dimensional characters from a deceptively simple surface, Götterdämmerung shows her clarifying the most complex component of the entire … » Read