Shakespeare, being Shakespeare, defies most attempts at operatic adaptation. Anyone coming at the Bard with music paper in hand had better be Verdi, and even he backed down at the prospect of turning ...

Whether you're on the trolleybus on the way to the performance, having a cigarette in front of the Salzburg Festival Theatre or queuing in the toilet - with the opera quick check you'll be perfectly ...

Opera tunes were constant fodder for home music-making in the 19th century. One tune from the now-defunct opera "Mignon" by Ambroise Thomas has provided Suzuki violin students pleasure — or pain — for ...

Starting in March at the Opéra Bastille, Ambroise Thomas’s version of the Shakespearean tragedy will be revived at the Paris Opera for the first time since 1938. By Rebecca Schmid Ambroise Thomas’s ...

Based on an earlier French translation of Shakespeare, Ambroise Thomas’ 1868 French grand opera was a long-term success in his native country while running into chauvinistic criticism in England due ...