Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series of reported commentaries on the future of opera. NEW YORK — It’s a big house. The Metropolitan Opera seats nearly 4,000 people up into its fifth ...

History was made in Cape Town on September 27, when Cape Town Opera premiered its production of Verdi’s Aida as the first locally produced opera, filmed live at the Artscape Opera House, to be ...

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Late in the afternoon on Nov. 10, lights began to dim as a packed audience eagerly waited at the Emerson Colonial Theatre. The Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of the classic opera “Aida,” with music by ...