The George and Nora London Foundation Competition for American and Canadian opera singers, one of the opera world's oldest and most prestigious competitions, will hold its 53rd event in 2025, with a ...

"Porgy and Bess" — an opera that spotlights Black voices and helped define the Houston Grand Opera's legacy — returns to the opera house after 30 years. Why it matters: HGO's 1976 production — among ...

Opera Naples' upcoming season is shaping up to be a big one. The opera company plans four fully staged operas for the first time since the pandemic — and those operas are some of the best-known, ...

The Dallas Opera is presenting Christoph Willibald Gluck’s famous 1762 opera, “Orpheus and Eurydice,” for the first time. In this production, director Joachim Schamberger has reimagined the staging to ...

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...

Metropolitan opera bass-baritone Keith Miller (Art ex’96) starred in Home Soiree – Opera Gala at the Crested Butte Music Festival last summer. Home Soiree was a collection of arias and ensembles from ...

The Minnesota Opera’s 2024–25 season is set to feature a trio of classic and newer operas, with more exclusive events for season subscribers than in recent years. The next season, the opera’s 62nd, ...

THE lady was suffering from a broken heart, and her doctor knew just what to prescribe: opera. He ordered an alcove constructed in her bedchamber, and there artists nightly performed excerpts from the ...

Watching a crowd at the Royal Opera House in London is not like watching the crowd at a Pittsburgh Opera performance. At the Royal Opera House, there’s a pervasive air of glitz and glamour, light ...

The famed tenor succumbed to pancreatic cancer at age 71. Sept. 6, 2007 — -- Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti has died at his home in Modena, Italy, the singer's manager said. The legendary ...