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Castellucci’s 'Saint François d’Assise' Triumphs at Salzburg Festival

The production pairs confrontational imagery with a rigorously realized, demanding score that critics call a festival high point.

Bayreuth’s AI Ring Ends in Boos After Götterdämmerung

Kennedy Center Suspends Public Tours After Reporting on Leadership Changes

Bayreuth's AI 'Ring' Divides Audiences as Thielemann Wins Musical Praise

AI Visuals Overwhelm Bayreuth’s Jubilee Ring

UNESCO Adds 'Teatros da Amazônia' to World Heritage List

Bayreuth’s 150th Debut of Rienzi and an AI Ring Draw Strong Praise for Music and Sharp Criticism for Staging

UNESCO Adds Two 19th-Century Amazon Theaters to World Heritage List

Salzburg Carmen Divides Audiences With Dance‑First Staging and Forceful Conducting

Italian Teatri Condominiali Added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Bregenzer Festspiele Open 80th Season With La Traviata on the Seebühne

Theatro Municipal Marks 117th Anniversary With Free Program and Return of Salvator Rosa

Palais Garnier Stage to Close Five Years for Full Lead Removal

Pazos’s L'òpera de tres rals Opens Grec 50 to Tepid Reviews

Kratzer’s Walküre Opens Munich Festival With Filmed Walkürenritt

Washington National Opera Sues Kennedy Center for $17 Million in Withheld Donor Funds

Agnès Jaoui Returns With Opera-Set #MeToo Comedy L'Objet du délit

Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando Premieres at Komische Oper Berlin

Royal Opera House Unveils New Main-Stage Curtains Bearing King Charles III’s Cypher

Wiesbaden Opens Maifestspiele With Archival ‘Tristan’ to Applause for Music and Dissent Over Staging