Freebie of the week: Arias al fresco all afternoon, anyone? Opera in the Bay Area is alive and thriving, as an event coming up Sunday at the Transamerica Redwood Park in San Francisco will amply ...

In Berlin, the director Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production dispenses with the opera’s final sextet and leads directly into Mozart’s Requiem. By Ben Miller Reporting from Berlin Partway through the ...