The opera of this year’s Spoleto Festival USA is Vanessa, an existential drama that follows its titular character through a harrowing journey of love, longing and loss. It’s historically important to ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Joshua Jeremiah leaned in, as if to share a secret. “I’m the troublemaker,” the topknotted baritone told me, eyes flashing. It wasn’t a secret at all. Already he’d hopped up to ...

When Samuel Barber’s Vanessa premiered in New York in 1958 it was the first new American work to appear at the Metropolitan Opera in eleven years, and only the twentieth since the house was opened in ...

NORTH ADAMS — The team behind “Vanessa” said they hoped another character in this underperformed opera by Samuel Barber would come to the fore. With a large expressive sound that came out of nowhere, ...

Heartbeat Opera will present its adaptation of Vanessa in New York City from May 12 through May 31, 2026 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. The production arrives in New York following a critically ...

Fifty-eight years have passed since the premiere of Vanessa, an opera with music by Samuel Barber to a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and it hasn’t grown any less disquieting with the passing decades ...