The new season of the hit series details a battle between two high-society music venues, but how much of it is real?

From Valencia to the Amazon, and New York to Buenos Aires, Alex Sakalis explores the stories behind the most stunning opera venues across the globe.

Soprano Angel Blue says she won't perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of another work this summer

Opera today launched version 50 of its desktop browser. Sadly, this release doesn’t come with a cake to celebrate this milestone (not even a tiny cupcake), but the newest release does include a new feature that makes sure that nobody can mine cryptocurrencies in your browser.

How Ludwig II's love for Richard Wagner inspired the world's greatest work of fan art. By Alison Kinney.

Browsers have gotten boring. After a flurry of innovation, especially around the time Google launched Chrome, things slowed down over the last few years...

Baritone Roderick Williams is rehearsing the role of Billy Budd in Britten’s opera. He’s more used to playing villains – so how is he breathing life into ‘an angel’?

The art of protest. By Alison Kinney.

Company argues the move will create a faster browser, something most customers want.

Back in 2006 Opera was the first major browser to include BitTorrent support, and today it releases another feature that will appeal to millions of users. The company has added a free and unlimited VPN to the developer version of its browser. This means that users can browse the web securely at the flick of a switch. Privacy aside, the built-in VPN is also an ideal tool to circumvent website blockades. This may come in handy for the aforementioned BitTorrent...

When it comes to web browsers, if you consider yourself a ‘power user’ and feel that the likes of Chrome and Firefox lack certain features as a way of making them more accessible, then Vivaldi could be for you. …

By creating spaces that are as psychological as they are physical, Es Devlin has become set design’s biggest star. By Andrew O’Hagan.

The Making of ‘What’s Opera Doc?’

Fallujah is based on the experiences of a real Marine, who lost friends and more as a gunner in Iraq. The show's libretto was written by an Iraqi-American.

If you use a major desktop web browser, you usually have to hunt down an ad blocking add-on if you're determined to purge intrusive promos from your internet experience. You won't have to go scrounging if you're an Opera fan, however: the company has released a developer version of its desktop browser with ad blocking built-in. It not only saves you the trouble of finding an extension, but takes the challenge out of it...

We've tested the top browsers—Google Chrome, Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera—against a variety of simulated and real-world tests, and picked a winner.

The opening night of William Tell at the Royal Opera House is marked by boos over a nude rape scene.

The enormous 12m high inflatable sun is a prop in Madama Butterfly, an outdoor opera performed on a temporary stage built on Australia’s most famous waterway. It rose behind a giant stage built over the water.