Opera News

Andrew Adler When David Roth first told me several years ago that Kentucky Opera would present its entire season in a two-month span, beginning in September and ending in November, I probably threw the company's general director more than one worried look.

Opera is brought to the masses through a modern English version of La Boheme, performed at a pub in north London.

When the curtain rises on the Close Encounters with Music holiday concert at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday at 6 p.m., fans of cellist Yehuda Hanani's popular chamber music series had better hold onto their hats.

A word of warning. If you hate operatic cliches, give Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" a pass.

I recently saw a delightful production of "The Barber of Seville" by Townsend Opera performers at the Gallo.

Rufus Wainwright's debut opera, "Prima Donna," now has a director for its North American premiere next year in Toronto.

British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on Thursday unveiled his latest musical Love Never Dies , a sequel to hit show The Phantom of the Opera which has played to more than 100 million people around the world.

John Schlesinger's production of Der Rosenkavalier, first mounted for Georg Solti's Covent Garden return in 1984, hits its silver jubilee this month.

IF THE critics are right, La Scala's production of Bizet's 'Carmen' could well give new force to the role of women in Italian opera.

US President Barack Obama paid tribute to rocker Bruce Springsteen, actor Robert de Niro and film director Mel Brooks for their work for American culture at a black tie dinner in Washington.

By Alexandra Wood THE LIFE of an opera singer whose voice gave joy to thousands was celebrated in song yesterday.

One searches for images to describe the voice of RenA©e Fleming, as so many have been expended through the years.

Georges Bizet's tale of love, jealousy and murder will open the opera season on Monday evening at Milan's La Scala to the delight of the glamorous and great.

Luminaries from the worlds of music and film were feted by President Barack Obama and a black-tie audience of artists and political heavyweights on Sunday at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors.

In April of 1336, Tamerlano , also known as Tamerlane, Tamburlaine, or Timur the Lame, was born in what is now Uzbekistan.

The Moscow Philharmonia opens its annual series entitled 'Opera Masterpieces' on Saturday with a concert performance at Tchaikovsky Hall of Mozart's 'Idomeneo,' a work that has apparently never before been performed in Moscow.

There is much to cheer about in the Metropolitan Opera 's phantasmagorical new production of Offenbach's "Contes d'Hoffmann" , which opened on Thursday night.

Four performers from the LA Opera dazzled a packed auditorium at the City of Hope Thursday, belting out versions of classic opera and Christmas songs to a delighted crowd.

What started out as Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "first regular album" turned into a sprawling 26-song, two-CD, four-years-in-the-making rock-opera-plus called "Night Castle." Released Oct.

Conductor James Levine is due back on the podium following a two-month absence caused by surgery for a herniated disk in his back.