Opera News

Opera on Tap is a conundrum of sorts: this most stereotypically high-class of genres is stripped of its powder and wigs and put on in bars.

I'm looking at a photograph of my father when he was a graduate student at Indiana University.

On a recent Sunday in April, conductor Mary Chun lowered her baton after the final sparkling note of Bonjour M. Gauguin , a new chamber opera produced by Berkeley-based West Edge Opera.

Germany is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner with the unveiling Wednesday of a monument in the composer's birthplace of Leipzig.

Usually performed once a year, this the large opera work by Giuseppe Verdi returns to the stage for the second time this season.

The 6th Season of The Concerts for City Greens , free outdoor concert series, commences on Wednesday, May 29th at 6:30 pm at Tudor City Greens, with "I Feel So Much Spring," and will feature professional performers from Broadway and the New York City cabaret, jazz, classical and opera scene.

A ubrey Allicock returns to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis this month as Young Emile in the world premiere of Champion , a work that combines jazz with opera to tell the story of a World Welterweight Champion boxer who is tortured by personal demons.

Dorothea Roschmann and Malin Christensson in Los Angeles Philharmonic Association's "The Marriage of Figaro." Photo by Mathew Imaging As "The Marriage of Figaro" opens, the clever factotum is carefully measuring his nuptial bed to see if it will fit in the small room that he and his beloved Susanna will soon occupy as man and wife.

If you are feeling sad about this , or this , as I am, I don't think you can go wrong with a little extra dose of the arts.

Earl Jarrett, chairman of the JN Foundation , hands a copy of a signed contract to Rosina Moder, executive director of Music Unites Foundation, to provide funding for a two-year initiative to research and document the works and life of Jamaican composers of classical and patriotic music, as well as composers of church, dance and theatre music.

Donna Ellen Trifunovich has always preferred to see the glass as half full and these days her glass seems brimming with good fortune, a situation she's only too happy to share with her friends and supporters in Guelph.

The Barber of Seville , the fourth show of Soulpepper's 2013 season, opened this past Thursday at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

Speight Jenkins And The Appeal Of Wagner May 22nd is the birthday of composer Richard Wagner.

The Atlanta Opera , one of the nation's finest regional opera companies enriching lives through the power of opera, today announced that its annual High School Opera Institute's spring performance will take place at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 9, 2013at Morningside Presbyterian Church .

Fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber's phenomenally successful The Phantom of the Opera are in for a treat when critically-acclaimed concert Three Phantoms comes to Wimbledon, writes Khaleda Rahman.

Ecstatic ... Joyce DiDonato as Elena in the Royal Opera House's La Donna del Lago.

John Caird and Placido Domingo bring the violence of Puccini's Tosca to the fore in a blood-soaked new production, reports Stephen Pritchard from Los Angeles Placido Domingo should know his way around Puccini's Tosca: he first performed in it as a boy, tolling the bells for mass in Act One.

Carnegie Hall salutes Vienna's extraordinary artistic legacy with Vienna: City of Dreams , a three-week citywide festival during February and March 2014 that features symphonic and operatic masterpieces, chamber music, and lieder, as well as a sampling of new sounds that are emerging from this historic cultural capital.

THE Bristol Light Opera Club was formed in 1933 by music enthusiasts with an aim to produce light opera to the highest standard.

The selection of a dynamic, still youthful but already widely experienced conductor as the Boston Symphony's next music director has major, positive implications not only for the orchestra but also for its annual summer residency at Tanglewood.