Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: If your Munich visit coincides with the opera’s annual summer festival and you’d like to attend a free live broadcast from the National Theatre/open-air concert at Max ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: You don't have to watch an opera to enjoy the opera house. Make sure to climb the building up to the roof for incredible views of the city and harbor. – Leilani Osmundson ...

Jenufa at the Royal Opera House review: symbolic, psychologically probing and more potent than ever - 4/5 This revival was Jakub Hrusa’s first production as Covent Garden’s music director designate – ...

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.

FILE - Paul Plishka performs the role of the Grand Inquisitor in Giuseppe Verdi's "Don Carlo" during a rehearsal at the Salzburg Festival ... on an off day at the opera house in 2005.

The Royal Opera House opened in 1858. The building was previously destroyed twice by fire (once in 1808 and again in 1856). It was originally named the Theatre Royal Covent Garden. The Opera House ...

FILE - Paul Plishka as the Grand Inquisitor, left, and Sergei Larin as Don Carlo, perform in the opera "Don Carlo" by Giuseppe Verdi during a rehearsal at the Salzburg Festival’s Grosses ...