Carmen — and Carmen — blew into town in late September, with all her seductive cunning and mellifluous melodic charms. The tragic anti-heroine of the ever-popular opera by Georges Bizet, boldly ...

On January 2, 1958, a minor official at the Rome Opera House bore the thankless task of announcing bad news to the audience: Maria Callas had left the building. The legendary soprano, stricken by ...

As he prepares to start his 43rd year as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi said he is working toward the same goals now that he had at the start of his long tenure. “My goal is ...

The Kennedy Center premieres a new ending for one of the world's most famous operas on Saturday in Washington, D.C. The opera is Turandot, and its ending has always been, shall we say, problematic.

Director Melanie Helton’s key to MSU Opera Theatre's production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is bold color. As she has studied the opera, Helton said she feels the opera’s themes of good and evil, ...

The 2025 mainstage attraction is a new production of one of the most popular operas of all time: Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece La Traviata. BOF will bring it to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on ...

“People’s reaction to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic. They either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don’t, they may learn to appreciate it, ...

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something really novel in the genre. “Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped ...

After Handel introduced Italian opera to London, Georgians and Victorians went to performances to wear their diamonds and ...

OPERA America has revealed the winners of the 2023 Awards for Digital Excellence in Opera. The awards recognize the best work created for digital platforms by individual producers and organizations in ...