Four years ago, when Los Angeles Opera presented Wagner’s “Ring Cycle,” it worked with 122 partners to create a huge festival with an assortment of related programming. In othe… ...

Madame La Guillotine chomps her blade hungrily in the background during the first act of “Figaro.” Theatre de la Jeune Lune’s idiosyncratic pairing of opera and theater begins in 1792, as ...

Pierre Beaumarchais' "Figaro trilogy" caused quite a stir back in the late 1700s. These sassy plays - "The Barber of Seville," "The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Guilty Mother" - were banned in Paris ...

The 38-year-old has sung the comic role of Figaro many times, but found something new and “peculiar” this fall with the Sarasota Opera and Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi.

Mozart's opera is wonderfully performed in an L.A. Philharmonic production that even involves architect Jean Nouvel and designer Azzedine Alaïa.

Figaro in ‘Barber’ is pure baritone, but Figaro in ‘Nozze’ is always a little bit lower than everybody else.” Venni said the characters are similar but different in the two operas.

Olga Syniakova, who will perform in Seattle Opera’s upcoming production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” reflects on opera while worried about family in Ukraine.

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