Opera News

The opera was last at the Met three seasons ago. This revival was placed in the hands of a noted conductor, Fabio Luisi, who made an impressive Met debut on Thursday night for the season premiere of "Don ...

Macedonian opera will hold Friday the premiere of opera "Madam Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini, directed by Bulgarian guest Aleksandar Tekeliev.

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Fans of tongue-in-cheek musical theater that is synonymous with Gilbert and Sullivan will have a chance to see one of the duo s most well-known compositions during performances in Terre Haute this weekend.

Grantham Choral Society will sing Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle in St Wulfram's Church on Saturday, March 12, in a special pre-Easter treat.

How long has it been since a high-school show caused controversy? A few years ago, Springfield High School s production of a harmless Gilbert and Sullivan operetta caused a stir when a female student was cast ...

Singing offbeat, nontraditional roles can be a path to oblivion for an opera singer.

In some cases, small is big. As in big impact. That was the case Thursday night at Symphony Hall, when the Boston Symphony Orchestra offered a chamber program that included the American premiere of Karl Amadeus ...

In an effort to educate audiences and make opera more available and accessible, Opera Longview is partnering with the Longview Public Library to offer a new Arts resource to our community: 'Nights of Opera.' ...

The faces of all 52 actors will be covered with a thick white base, while deep red or blue lines will highlight their eyes, eyebrows and mouths.

Attila Jun, the first Korean male vocalist to have a major role on the stage of La Scala, will give his first recital in his native country at LG Arts Center, southern Seoul, on March 17.

Connecticut Lyric Opera and the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra will present Charles Gounod's classic drama, "Faust," Friday at 8 p.m. at Trinity-on-Main, 69 Main St.

"We are not philistines," the Queen recently told Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the master of the Queen's music.

A veteran singer with the Lyric Opera of Chicago was found stabbed to death in his Lincoln Square apartment after co-workers worried that he had not showed up for work went to check on him, police said Monday.

The success of "Lucia di Lammermoor" in 1835 was a crowning moment in Gaetano Donizetti's already brilliant career as a composer, and it has gone on through the ages to become his best-known work.

Milan's world-famous La Scala opera house has fired one its top executives. The theatre's board sacked Carlo Fontana - who has headed the theatre since 1990 - citing "differences" with conductor Riccardo Muti.

Ara Berberian, 74, who performed at New York's Metropolitan Opera for 20 years, died Monday from heart failure at his winter home in Boynton Beach, Fla., according to his wife, Ginny.

Tragedy and comedy are the main elements of the two one-act operas written by Giacomo Puccini that are being performed the next two weekends.

Today through Sunday, the Western Kentucky University departments of music, theater and dance will stage Gilbert and Sullivan's 12th opera, the light-hearted 'The Gondoliers,' which is also known as 'The King ...

Culture by the Sea is almost at an end. A school presentation of Opera Classics at 1:30 pm on Friday, February 25 and an evening performance on Saturday, February 26 at the Evergreen Theatre are the last events ...

Sarasota Opera's production of Stiffelio, which censors shredded in 1850, shows that the work deserves more widespread attention.

Madame Butterfly, which tells the tragic tale of a geisha's love for an American naval officer, had its Toronto premiere in 2001.

Jess Wade is batting a thousand when it comes to programming the annual Brazos Valley Chorale Pops Dinner Concert.

It has never been easy to catch the protean essence of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - performed all round the globe, Master of the Queen's Music, and musical master of his remote Orkney island - but the place to ...

It took the hero 20 minutes to die Saturday night, but the audience loved it. After all, this premiere of Massenet's Werther, was being performed in Vienna, a city sometimes described as in love with death.

Cannily focusing on the operas of Jules Massenet and Charles Gounod, Villazon mixes familiar arias with rarities.

Today is Thursday, February 17th, the 48th day of 2005. There are 317 days left in the year.

New Jewish Theater production of Unexpected Tenderness opens at 8 p.m. Thursday and continues through March 6 at the Sarah & Abraham Wolfson Studio Theatre, Jewish Community Center, 2 Millstone Campus Drive.

There is an honesty to Elijah Moshinsky's four-year-old production of Verdi's "Nabucco," which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.

Tenor George Saliba will be presenting a recital of popular classics at a lunchtime concert tomorrow.

On 1 June 1804 was born Mikhail Glinka in the Slomensk region of Russia. Regarded as the founder of the Russian school of composers, his music was heard in Europe, to which he travelled frequently.

In recent decades advocates of 19th-century French opera have brought lesser-known works by Massenet, Dukas, Bizet and others to attention, adding to our picture of that heritage.

Funny thing about Rossini: He isn't just about being funny. Consider his 20th opera, "La Cenerentola" ("Cinderella"), which Kentucky Opera will stage in a new production next weekend.