It’s one of the most oft retold stories of Greek mythology. The beautiful Eurydice, beloved of the musician Orpheus, dies and ...
After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...
Riccardo Muti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a program that featured Verdi’s “Four Seasons” and ...
“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...
If theater-goers are left to wonder whether Iago hates Otello because he is a racist or because he was skipped for promotion, ...
The Metropolitan Opera presents a new production of Giuseppe Verde’s masterpiece, “Aida,” and Oregon coast audiences can see ...
Meyerbeer's vast fortune and the great success of his operas, as well as his observance of the laws of the Jewish religion, ...
From star divas of history to the finest voices of today, here’s our list of the greatest opera singers in history. No list of the world’s greatest opera singers would ... He truly had one of the ...
Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained ...
Judges are accustomed to tense moments and dramatic swerves playing out before them in court. But the case brought to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Philbrick McCoy’s bench on May 14, 1954, must ...
This innovative company, which won acclaim for staging operas in unconventional spaces and ways, said it could no ... Site Opera journey.” Javier C. Hernández reports on classical music ...
At the end of February, start of March this year, the Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe is presenting a Händel festival, ...