Opera News

Cantanti d'Oro, a small ensemble of grads from UBC's opera program at the school of music, will sing music from two of the art form's best-known works, Giacomo Puccini's La BohA me and Georges Bizet's Carmen , in concerts this weekend at Christ Church Cathedral and venues in West Vancouver and Aldergrove.

Soprano Michelle Bradley and pianist Michael Gaertner have been named winners of the 2014 Music Academy of the West Marilyn Horne Song Competition, which took place Saturday at the Music Academy's Hahn Hall.

The great music of German composer Richard Wagner is to fill Norwich's Theatre Royal in two epic productions that are among the biggest to have been performed on the city stage.

Mozart's Don Giovanni forms the centerpiece of the 2014 Savannah VOICE Festival, a two-week celebration of opera Aug. 1-17.

An earthquake romance. A genre-defying song play. With a score by leading contemporary composer John Adams and a libretto by the late poet June Jordan, I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky was written as an homage to the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Celebrated grande dame of pantomime Clive Rowe will make his much-anticipated return to Hackney Empire this Christmas in Mother Goose .

Arias and duets by DvoATMA k, Mozart, Offenbach, Puccini, Rossini, Smetana and Verdi; with Jobin, Melton, Peerce, Singher, Kipnis and Pinza, King, piano; Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Philharmonic and various orchestras, Abravanel, Beecham, Black, Breisach, Gould, Panizza, Pelletier, Toscanini, Voorhees, Wallenstein, Walter and Weissmann.

It's hard to imagine two Supreme Court justices who differ more than liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg and conservative Antonin Scalia.

Johann Adolf Hasse , once a footnote in articles on his wife, diva Faustina Bordoni, or on his rival Georg Frideric Handel, seems to be back with a vengeance, at least in the recording studio.

Composer John Adams often has described his transformation from born-and-bred New Englander to born-again West Coaster.

Music Director James Conlon and LA Opera launch Figaro Unbound: Culture, Power, and Revolution at Play , a three-month celebration of the French playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais that centers on three operas based on the adventures of Figaro as originally told in Beaumarchais's series of three stage comedies.

The music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has always proven thought-provoking without ever crossing into presumptuousness.

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Cameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Really Useful Group's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA will go on sale Saturday, July 26th at 10am for the Triangle premiere engagement at DPAC.

"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." Andy Warhol's 15 has been the longest in the history of time, and his fame for his iconic Campbell Soup cans and multiple portraits of Marilyn lives on.

If you think you hear what sounds like opera singing while strolling around San Mateo, it might not be the radio.

It's Judgment Week on " America's Got Talent ," and the New Orleans-born opera duo of Acte II will perform again for celebrity judges Howie Mandel, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Howard Stern for a chance to advance to later live-show rounds.

At this week's Proms, the pop trailblazers will celebrate Alan Turing, the computer pioneer and Enigma codebreaker persecuted for his homosexuality.

A benefit concert against hate-related violence is being organized and headlined by opera singer Tamar Iveri after she was rebuked and fired from several jobs following a Facebook controversy.

"La Traviata" was telecast recently on the big screen of AT&T Park for the annual free Opera in the Park event, and in one of the suites was San Francisco Opera board member Sylvia Lindsey , 72, shepherding over 25 young musicians.