From January 27 to February 26, 2026, Paris’s Opéra Bastille will host a complete showcase of Giuseppe Verdi’s "A Masked Ball ...

King Gustav III of Sweden wasn’t the world’s best-loved monarch; he was assassinated in 1792 after seizing power from noblemen and diminishing democracy. Not really much of a story; powerful leaders ...

For an opera named after a bat, “Die Fledermaus” has plenty of endearing qualities for opera and operetta fans: mistaken identity; sweet revenge; comedy; a womanizing and insulting husband who gets ...

When Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera closed on Broadway in April of 2023, after 35 years, it was the end of an era. But a new immersive version of the show – think of it as a remix – ...

On Un ballo in maschera at the Hungarian State Opera. The opera’s plot, which is based on the assassination in 1792 of King Gustav III of Sweden at, yes, a masked ball, proved almost comically ...

As the masked Phantom wordlessly led an audience member out of the room, a woman broke the silence to ask in a slightly panicked voice, “Where’s he taken my daughter?” Harmless, temporary abductions ...