My dating history featured a catalog of opera seria, each ending more tragic than the last. In my 30s and four years out of a decade-long abusive relationship, I was finally ready to love again.

The anarchic climax comes in a Milan performance of L’opera seria, Bohemian composer Florian Leopold Gassmann’s riotous 1769 opera for Vienna satirising the conventions of the musical genre at ...

The San Carlo in Naples is at the center of an offstage drama in which each of two respected figures believes he is the house’s rightful leader. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome.

The subscribers of the Royal Academy of Music, founded in London 1719, couldn’t get enough of the style of performance known as opera seria (“serious” opera), and paid handsomely to ensure a ...

The concert will open with an aria “Parto, Ma tu ben mio” from the opera La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), an ...

A scene from Richard Jones's latest production of Handel's fantastical 1735 opera seria Bayoh, who trained at the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, features alongside Lisette Oropesa, Emily D ...

l’opera seria révèle une partition très aboutie, à l’écriture virtuose et expressive, respectant certes les conventions esthétiques de ce genre noble, mais contenant déjà en germe les ...

Décider de monter "Mitridate, Re di Ponto" (1770), premier opera seria composé par Mozart à l'âge de 14 ans, n'est pas un choix évident pour une maison d'opéra. Bien moins connu et réputé ...

14 ans. C’est l’âge auquel le jeune Mozart a composé Mitridate, re di Ponto, son premier opéra seria. 250 ans après ce coup d’essai, l’œuvre entre au répertoire de l’Opéra ...