In the soft glow of dim lights, the first note of the chamber orchestra called together a group of frazzled young women to center stage. It was impossible not to feel dropped into the middle of a ...

Experience Massenet’s Cinderella with Joyce DiDonato in the title role, Alice Coote as Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de ...

For years now I’ve wondered about the appeal of Frozen, the movie and, most recently, “the musical.” What is it about this piece that so galvanizes tween girls and 20-something gay guys—that is, ...

Fiona Shaw stages Massenet’s flawed yet astonishingly beautiful opera as a surreal, modern-dress phantasmagoria The centrepiece of this year’s Glyndebourne tour is a new production by Fiona Shaw of ...

It's Christmas in July at Covent Garden, and not only for diehard Massenet fans, who are hearing the Royal Opera perform his 1899 fairytale opera for the first time. There's a festive feel to Laurent ...

The Royal Opera’s rather dull 2010-11 season finally brightens up with a charming and entertaining production of Cendrillon, Massenet’s take on the Cinderella story. It’s taken over a century for this ...