"Opera is a bizarre affair . . . in which poet and musician, each obstructed by the other, give themselves no end of trouble to produce a wretched result." So thought the 17th-century French ...

Launched at the end of November, "L'Opéra en Guyane" (Opera in Guiana) aims to bridge some of that distance between the French capital and French Guiana, some 7,000 km across the Atlantic from ...

Last week though, a French soprano named Régine Crespin sang the final Marschallin of her first season at the Metropolitan Opera. It was the best at the Met since Lotte Lehmann’s swan song 16 ...