Devotees of early Romantic Italian opera must have thought they had died and gone to bel canto heaven last week, when two masterpieces of that genre, neither of them overly familiar, opened in ...

Anna Netrebko is a soprano fit for a queen. Her sound possesses the opulence and attention-grabbing power of a necklace dripping with jewels. She projects a regal, authoritative presence to match. If ...

Anna Bolena is a tragic opera in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto recounting the life of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII. It ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Met came late to Donizetti operas about British queens, when it finally ...

The overture has hardly ended before we’re told that Anne’s star is falling, and it’s not exactly a spoiler to reveal that our social climbing heroine is destined (in the words of a better librettist ...

Eve Queler's Opera Orchestra of New York has been a fixture at Carnegie Hall for more than three decades. Krassimira Stoyanova (Anna Bolena); Jennifer Larmore (Jane Seymour); James Morris (Henry VIII) ...

From left Courtney Fletcher plays Giovanna Seymour and Natalie Conte plays Anna Bolena in "Anna Bolena" at Winter Opera. In their 18th season, Winter Opera’s founder/general director Gina Galati ...

Opera composer Gaetano Donizetti was entranced with the Tudor period of English history, and its queens in particular. Anna Bolena, named for King Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, was the first ...

Katie Couric arrives for opening night at the Metropolitan Opera. (Stephen Nessen) Martha Stewart arrives at the Met's opening night gala. (Stephen Nessen) Met General Manager Peter Gelb and wife Keri ...

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Kneeling on stage as she sang the last notes of a heart-rending aria, Anna Netrebko felt the tumultuous applause wash over her — and smiled. It was a break in character for the tragic heroine of ...