Hotel Moctezuma is a multi-language opera about a Mexican girl, named Xóchitl, who moves to Venice and discovers her hotel ...

The Metropolitan Opera's revival of Tchaikovsky’s *The Queen of Spades*, which opened on Friday, May 23, 2025, offered a ...

Arsen Soghomonyan as Hermann and Sonya Yoncheva as Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Meytropolitan Opera.

Beyond the Gates spoilers pit Tomas and Derek against each other in the battle for worst boyfriend as both men drive their ...

This was no ordinary orchestra concert. Sure, there was a seated audience in the usual place, in front of the performers, but on this sunny, breezy afternoon, there were patrons also behind the ...

The Minnesota Opera Orchestra, conducted by principal conductor ... seems to make (which is actually coming from the orchestra pit). Playing Figaro on opening night, Takaoki Onishi handles the ...

synthetic chime of sorts — you’d swear someone had pressed a power button in the orchestra pit. On Friday evening at the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera opened its production of ...

In a fully staged opera production, the musicians are often hidden away in the pit, and even the chorus sometimes ends up behind the wings, leaving the main playing area for the lead singers.

Any opera house tackling the piece today faces multiple ... Part of this might be because of conductor Marc Albrecht’s decision to raise the pit, placing the orchestra just below the auditorium ...

Opera at the Met may mean expensively lavish ... But overall, the orchestra, which is raised up from the pit and fully visible throughout, played with a lively sheen. Prince Tamino’s magic ...

the Lyric Opera of Chicago and New York Philharmonic. In addition to a principal cast of eight singers, the score calls for nearly 50 Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra musicians in the pit ...