MIDDLETOWN >> Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman opera comes to Middletown on Saturday. Also known as Der Fliegende Hollander, the German opera will be performed by the Connecticut Lyric Opera and ...

Opera North has got it right. At this time of acute uncertainty for the UK’s opera companies, it welcomes its audiences both old and new with confidence. The company has struck a fine balance between ...

One of the city's most innovative arts companies enters a new phase Friday, Nov. 25, with The Black Pirate vs. The Flying Dutchman, its first show under new artistic director Erica Melton, who's been ...

Fleeing One and Bureaucrat: Robert Hayward as The Dutchman and Clive Bayley as Daland in Opera North’s production of The Flying Dutchman The production as a whole, however, and the contributions of ...

Any company planning a Richard Wagner staging would be well advised to proceed with caution; they’re among the biggest challenges in the repertoire. Opera Holland Park has indeed adopted a cautious ...

That said, Naomi Dawson’s set avoids any barnacled naturalism. Ropes, ladders and trapdoors hint at shipboard scenes rather than mimic them, while Robert Price’s effective mood-creating lighting does ...

Opera Roanoke's return to fully staged opera gets ever more ambitious. On Sept. 21 and 23 the company will tackle the staging of a Richard Wagner opera for the first time, with a production of the ...

Piedmont Opera’s first production of a Wagnerian opera in its 36-year history is an unmitigated artistic success, and, to judge by the opening-night audience’s response, a popular success as well.