Offenbach's fantastical final work, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), opens the Metropolitan Opera's 2024–25 Live in HD season on Saturday, October 5, at 1PM ET. French tenor Benjamin ...

Last Friday night at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre, I saw a preview of its latest production, MCNEAL, directed by Bartlett Sher, which moved like the wind and was fun to watch and hear. On ...

French composer Jacques Offenbach was famous for his operettas, bubbly, lighthearted musicals that satirized the conventions of the day. But he wanted to write serious opera, and the result was “Tales ...