The Met's new lineup includes Lucia di Lammermoor and all three parts of the Tudor trilogy. Each opera becomes available on the Metropolitan Opera's website at 7:30pm EDT (12:30am BST) and stays there ...

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale returns to the stage at Theatro São Pedro as part of the theater’s 2026 lyric season, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soprano Ashley Milanese is joining an extensive legacy of singers as she prepares for opening night of the Sarasota Opera’s new ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. These are the sort of discoveries one expects at Donizetti Opera, a festival in the composer’s Northern Italian ...

Elza van den Heever in the Met’s Maria Stuarda. Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera This a banner year for Donizetti at the Metropolitan Opera, propelled by soprano Sondra Radvanovsky’s ambition to ...

How do you strangle a baritone? In the cafe of the National Opera House in Wexford, detailed instructions as to how to do exactly that are being issued as Pietro di Blanco and Michele Patti rehearse ...

Italian opera composer’s lost works to be performed in London after discovery by British musicologist Up to 90 previously unknown songs by one of classical music’s greatest composers, Gaetano ...

Donizetti was a truly prolific opera composer, he could turn out as many as three or four a year and was said to have sketched and written the last act of La favorita in a few hours. Imagine composing ...

A lost opera by one of the great Italian composers is to have its world premiere in London almost 180 years after it was written. Gaetano Donizetti was a leading figure in 19th-century Italian music, ...