Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A rare opera needs its champions. Somebody at Opera Holland Park clearly loves Mascagni’s Iris, a pioneering Japanese ...

Osaka and Kyoto haggle over the unconscious Iris at Bard SummerScape. The libretto, by favorite Puccini collaborator Luigi Illica, is a wispy symbolist text telling of the virginal Tokyo slum dweller ...

It probably would have been worth the trip to Bard SummerScape's production of Pietro Mascagni's IRIS--last heard at the Met in 1931--simply to make the acquaintance of soprano Talise Trevigne.

The opera isn't for everyone. Whether it’s something as traditional and esoteric as Philip Glass' Akhnaten or groundbreaking as The Who's rock saga Tommy, an “opera” makes one think of acting, scenery ...

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Co-directed by cinematographer André Chemetoff and visual artist Armand Beraud, "IRIS: a Space Opera by Justice" is a 60-minute version of the tour performance recorded in an empty, invisible space… ...

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Tickets are on sale today, with more theaters and cities added to the list each day. By Kat Bein Space. It’s the final frontier, but for die-hard fans of electro-rock pioneers Justice, the great ...

Mascagni is more arthritic in his sense of movement – think of how long the plot of Cavalleria Rusticana takes to get going – and sometimes strives hard for those orchestral effects which seem so ...

"Honourably" means, from director Olivia Fuchs's perspective, tackling head-on the distasteful plot in which a girl young enough still to be playing with dollies is drugged and carted off by a ...