Lisette Oropesa impresses Metropolitan Opera's Peter Gelb with her talent and intellect. Gelb compares her to Beverly Sills, ...

Written in 1598 — around the same time Shakespeare completed Romeo and Juliet — Tang Xianzu's The Peony Pavilion tells the ...

Retiring from opera has its own set of challenges, but there is plenty I share with the other millions of Americans ending ...

The busy mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti has made a career out of versatility: “I think generally people should not do only one ...

Within a few years, some of the “Choralums” on the risers may be wearing the cardinal blazers of the 50th reunion class.

In addition to the 1995 concert, the new release, entitled The Lost Concert (Live at Llangollen, 1995) includes two ...

The event precedes Detroit Opera’s March 2026 staging of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” an opera adaptation by Poul Ruders and Paul ...

Renée Fleming Renée Fleming is among the artists who resigned after Trump’s takeover of Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center where she was an Artistic ...

Johan Strauss II's masterwork, which will be performed Jan. 16 and 18 by the Cedar Rapids Opera with Orchestra Iowa at the ...

As the drumbeats of Ganju Opera echo through the hills, the mayor of Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, pauses before an ancient stage. Opera here conveys more than art. It transmits emotion and culture. In ...

The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers are taking audiences on a tour of operatic history this winter, with a ...

They were pioneers and trailblazers in their fields. Activists and artists, including several beloved musicians. They were ...