A woman. A broken heart. A telephone. French writer-artist Jean Cocteau knew that stripping a tale of love gone wrong down to these elements would create a theatrical canvas for emotions writ large.

The phone rings. The opera begins. That’s an unwanted scenario that plays out nightly in opera houses around the world in this distracted age of cellphones. It is also the cue for the entrance of Elle ...

For the “Found” season, it has commissioned a series of 15 original performances – some given by artists in their own homes, but some staged in the empty “Theatre in the Woods", with social-distancing ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Comédie-Française premiered Cocteau's monodrama La Voix Humaine in 1930 ...

While live, indoor opera has returned in cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, other opera companies are taking a more gradual approach. Some are waiting until November or ...

For its latest musical adventure, Long Beach Opera requisitioned the basement of an old bank building downtown, vault and all. Now known as the Underground Club (part of the Federal Bar), the space ...

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Elle se voit comme une "jeteuse de sorts": la soprano Tamara Bounazou, artiste de la génération montante, vit sa passion pour ...