Early on in the new documentary Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, the artist introduces himself to the gathered cast at the Rome Opera House. He explains why he, a visual artist, decided to take on directing a ...

Staged at Covent Garden for the first time since its 1735 premiere, this new Ariodante reframes Handel’s drama as a Chekhovian family implosion that yields mixed results. Relationships fray almost ...

Musically, it’s hard to imagine a finer Tristan und Isolde than the one that opened at the Deutsche Oper on Saturday. Dramatically, however, it’s a very different story. Michael Thalheimer’s staging, ...