Get your opera glasses ready – the season is upon us Performances at most country house opera festivals offer the same format: the opera begins in the mid-afternoon, there’s an interval of 90 minutes ...

Sheep graze as opera fans enjoy a champagne picnic during a 90-minute interval for Bizet’s “Carmen,“ on the opening night of the Glyndebourne opera festival in Glynde, Britain, May 16, 2024.

In its ninth season, BOF will present Charles Gounod’s 1859 Mephistophelian tour-de-force “Faust,” which chronicles its title character’s deal with the devil for youth and love. Sun-Ly Pierce, the ...