NEW YORK—The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “Manon Lescaut” ran into a potential snag when tenor Jonas Kaufmann canceled for health reasons. Fortunately, tenor star Roberto Alagna stepped in ...

First impressions are important, but they shouldn't lead to snap judgment. It is usually wiser to stop and think, but in the world of opera – especially Puccini – lovers tend to fall in love at first ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US news every morning. Although Manon Lescaut used to be regarded as standard repertory, that hasn’t been the recent case at the Met.

Director Olivier Tambosi's production of Manon Lescaut, composer Giacomo Puccini's first triumph, returns to San Francisco Opera for six performances on the War Memorial Opera House stage, from ...

Artistic director David Pountney's themed spring season Fallen Women gives Welsh National Opera a neat package. Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Henze's Boulevard Solitude and Verdi's La Traviata are all ...

Stephen Lawless’s production might be ill-focused but the singers are superb, particularly Peter Auty’s Des Grieux Like many opera companies, the Grange festival has been having its share of problems ...