The sloe-eyed beauty who could charm the conqueror into giving her a kingdom—Cleopatra! It’s a tale that has long enthralled Western art and literature, involving as it does a powerful and exotic ...

ST. LOUIS - Along with Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis is a prime summer destination for American opera lovers. In its 49th season, the Missouri festival retains an enterprising identity ...

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis makes a practice of reviving underperformed contemporary operas. This season’s example is Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002), a chamber piece that examines the ...

Opera aficianados who go to Opera Roanoke’s production of “Julius Caesar in Egypt” should not be one bit surprised to see a woman singing the part of the emporer of Rome.

It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has ...