In this 2021 production of Janáček’s Katya Kabanova, Damiano Michieletto took a middle road in the debate. He abandoned all suggestion of locale: no river Volga, no house, no garden, practically no ...

Sheep graze as opera fans enjoy a champagne picnic during a 90-minute interval for Bizet’s “Carmen,“ on the opening night of the Glyndebourne opera festival in Glynde, Britain, May 16, 2024.

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook The Glyndebourne Festival, which receives little government support, has been mostly immune from recent convulsions of the opera industry in Britain. A picnic ...