Mary Stuart has a somewhat complex performance history. The opera is based on the play Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, depicting an im...

The two operas of our spring repertoire period, Verdi’s Don Carlos and Donizetti’s Mary Stuart ( Maria Stuarda ), share one major origin ...

In the 6 th century BC, Rome was ruled by a dynasty of tyrannical kings from the nearby city-state of Etrusca. The last of these ki...

On Friday, February 3, Houston Grand Opera opens its new production of Benjamin Britten's searing, intimate operatic exploration of huma...

In April of 1852, while still in the midst of writing Il trovatore , Giuseppe Verdi agreed to write a new opera to be prem...

Fraught with dramaturgical difficulties, the composition of Fidelio , Beethoven’s only opera, was characterized by fits and starts. There a...

This is the fourth post in a series which we hope will help you to get to know Beethoven’s rarely-performed Fidelio before you come to see ...