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An opera with a most unusual — and very disturbing — 'bad guy': a little old lady who believes that anyone who doesn't agree with her moral code must pay a terrible price.

Brooklyn verismo, courtesy of American composer William Bolcom: the trials of Italian immigrants — some of them illegal — in 1950s Red Hook.

There are many failed operas based on Romeo and Juliet — Bellini created one of the rare successes.

It's not just "Hi-ho, Silver!" — there are four whole acts, not to mention that apple and bow.

Lully shows us what happens when mere mortals get involved with the gods.

The story of a man so in love that he's willing to burn down Rome — and the emperor who is able to forgive him.

Robin D.G. Kelley's new book, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, focuses on the career of the eccentric jazz pianist and composer. It reveals new details about Monk's life, music and mental health problems, and provides a glimpse into the New York jazz scene of the mid-twentieth century.

Georges Bizet is only known for one opera — but he packs more hummable tunes than usual into it. This production features Roberto Alagna as Don Jose.

When it comes to opera's founding fathers, Monteverdi stood head and shoulders above all the others. Ulysses, one of his three surviving operas, comes to us from Homer's The Odyssey.

In this rarely revived opera, Rossini reuses many of his own tunes, but modern audiences have embraced it. This production, from Rossini's hometown, places the main character in a mental ward, where he is tormented with visions of the wife he sentenced to death.