Oh, Mary Jane! Oh, Mary Jane!

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Grammy-winning Intelligence makes a largely successful East Coast debut at Virginia Opera.

Storybored Storybored

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was, somehow, a fun night at the opera—just not one that felt specifically operatic.

Novel ideas Novel ideas

Carmen Paddock looks at contemporary opera’s prestige literary turn and what it takes for operas adopted from novels to last.