Features

Love, Art, Politics and Two Tenors

STEPHEN TAPSCOTT probes the evolution of Antonio Skármeta's novel about Pablo Neruda, Il Postino, into an Oscar-winning film. The book has now inspired an opera by Daniel Catán, which bows at Los Angeles Opera this month.

Star Potential

Of all the rising tenors on the international scene, Vittorio Grigolo, who makes his Met debut as Rodolfo in La Bohème this fall, is one of the hardest to pin down. By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH.

Tsar Power

René Pape, king of the opera world's basses, talks to AMANDA HOLLOWAY about the challenges of singing Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.

Hot Tickets!

The financial crunch may still be with us, but in 2010-11, U.S. companies are anything but down and out. OPERA NEWS presents our guide to the smartest ticket choices in the 2010–11 season.

Ring Ideal

This season, the Met begins to roll out its new Robert Lepage production of Wagner's Ring, and San Francisco Opera presents its first traversal of the full cycle in years. PHILIP KENNICOTT ponders what the work has to say to us today.