Opera aficionados recommend listening to clips of the opera online via YouTube, Spotify or other sites beforehand.

Who’s in and who’s not – on the secret, the joke, the relationship, the family, the club? That’s the fulcrum of Joe Hill-Gibbins’ ingeniously simple Figaro for English National Opera. A white box and ...

it’s a game that works because of the anchor of Jeremy Sams’ English translation. Properly, blissfully funny, it manages to make one of opera’s most tangled plots not only clear but idiomatic. A ...

James Madison University's latest opera — a Slavic version of the Little Mermaid story, adapted into English by the ...