Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor arrived at Houston Grand Opera last season in a new production by Tony Award–winning Scottish director John Doyle.

Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir of working with Louisiana death-row inmates, has become one of the few recent operas to have entered the repertory.

Strauss’s elegant and moving meditation on the conventions of the theater pits a comedienne against a prima donna at a high-society dinner party in Vienna.

The San Francisco Opera's world-premiere production of Wagner's Ring cycle reaches its transcendent climax. Nina Stemme plays Brünnhilde and Ian Storey is Siegfried.