About 15 years ago, Eliza O’Malley watched an opera in San Francisco on Romeo and Juliet that offered a new look at the tragic play by William Shakespeare. “I fell in love with the show the first time ...

Review: Minnesota Opera stages eye-catching and well-sung ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Jasmine Habersham as Juliet and Evan LeRoy Johnson as Roméo made beautiful music together in Charles Gounod’s operatic ...

Shakespeare was all the rage in 19th-century Europe. With new translations in multiple languages, the Bard’s vividly drawn characters and highly charged dramas could seem prototypes of literary ...