Warwick Thompson

Singers have become lab rats for directors.

James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave are playing the frolicsome young lovers Benedick and Beatrice -- at the ages of 82 and 76 respectively.

The recent surge in the number of plays by women in London is good news for the theater.

London theater’s fall season arrives with new surprises.

Frail opera goers in New York gird yourselves and medicate.

Not many people have heard, or even heard of, Verdi’s opera “Giovanna d’Arco” (Joan of Arc). With a little help from Anna Netrebko and Placido Domingo, that’s sure to change.

England’s oldest working theater presents the newest classical music festival. It’s a winning combination.

Opera productions are often updated. Backdating, now that’s a different matter.

It ran on Broadway for more than two years, and had three major American tours. Now, for its U.K. debut, “The Color Purple” is trimmed to fit the plucky 180-seat Menier Chocolate Factory near London Bridge.

Angela Gheorghiu’s life is imitating her art.

An unusual bequest of red-colored records changed Cori Ellison’s life at the age of seven.

Diana, goddess of chastity, lives in the icebox of a fridge. She’s dwarfed by huge cellophane-wrapped sausages and giant broccoli spears. It’s not what Rameau had in mind for his 1733 opera “Hyppolite et Aricie.”