Tchaikovsky’s macabre thriller, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, is back in the Met’s atmospheric staging. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva makes her highly anticipated role debut as Lisa, the young ...

Cards on the table: I adore The Queen of Spades. It's the perfect opera. The libretto (by Tchaikovsky and his brother, Modest, from a short story by Pushkin) is edgy, the characters are off the wall, ...

Enamoured with an unknown lady, a young soldier discovers that her grandmother holds a secret to win at cards. Although his beloved requites his love, happiness slips out of reach when his obsession ...

With Richard Farnes producing dynamic playing from the orchestra and Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts projecting his trademark combination of menace and vulnerability as Herman, Opera North’s production of ...

Though Jack Furness’s period-conscious concept – no violations pushed too far as in Stefan Herheim's Royal Opera horror – works beautifully with Tom Piper’s endlessly resourceful designs, Lizzie ...

This marriage ain't big enough for the both of them.

In this new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, set shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their ...

The Queen of Spades-- Tchaikovsky-s opera about a man obsessed with gambling, money and love. At the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through September 25th. . 213 365 3500 or laoper.org.