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Bound tells of a second generation of Asian immigrants, born and raised in the US, their problematic association with their cultural heritage, and the difficulties and challenges they face, bound to their culture but trying to be wholly accepted as American.

Colorful sets and lavish costumes greet Seattle audiences as live opera finally returns to the McCaw Hall. 

Seattle Opera do full justice to Dove and De Angelis's comic opera with a dark twist, filming it in the city's Museum of Flight.

Day two of Frankfurt Ring featured impressive stage work and some superior musical performances, but it was not enough to create a perfect evening of opera.

Paula Murrihy's role debut in Frankfurt not only proves to be infatuating, but also irresistibly cool.

Generally, opera doesn’t give old age much of a look-in, but the closing scene of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, written in Janáček’s old age, is an exception, as the Forester muses on the passing of time and the renewing cycle of life. In today’s Juilliard School production, Aubrey Allicock gave us the most touching and thoughtful of renderings.

Die Oper Frankfurt bereitet wieder einen ihrer ungewöhnlichen Doppel-Opernabende, diesmal im Bockenheimer Depot.

Flüchtige Szenen, Absurdes, Trauriges: Der Goldene Drache spricht die Fragen der Globalisierung an und bietet extravagante Musikalität von Peter Eötvös.

Der Titelheld wird wegen seiner pazifistischen Einstellung in einen für ihn tödlichen Familienkrieg gezogen. An der Oper Frankfurt ist die szenisch beklemmende und musikalisch packende Inszenierung als Wiederaufnahme zu sehen.