Opera News

Author Antoine Pecqueur had visited many performance palaces for his book The Most Beautiful Opera Houses in the World.

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Johann Strauss’ operetta “Die Fledermaus” is a confection as delightful as a slice of Sacher torte topped with a big dollop of schlag.

Director James Levine continues his long-awaited return to the Met podium conducting Mozart's final comic opera, "Cosi fan tutte," a laughing look at the twists and turns of romantic love.

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Of the packed roster of shows OTB will mount in its own Lower Queen Anne space, artistic director says many feature new forms of audience participation, and that some are "a bridge to a time when we'll have more shows off-site, more things that are installations, more work in collaboration with other organizations in town."

Rufus Wainwright creates music that is theatrical, emotional and operatic. Listening to his albums can feel like experiencing a Shakespearean play, with wit, tragedy and heartbreak all side by side.

Carnegie Hall today announced that soprano Jennifer Zetlan has agreed to step in for Kiera Duffy on Sunday, April 27 at 6:00 p.m., performing the U.S. premiere of composer Richard Ayres's No.

Christopher Sieber will officially make his debut as the tyrant Miss Trunchbull in Broadway's Matilda the Musical tonight, April 18. Sieber was previously scheduled to begin performances in March, but had to delay after he fractured a bone in his hand during rehearsals.

A LIVE high definition broadcast of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte will be screened in Malvern Theatres on Saturday, April 26 live from the Met, with music director James Levine conducting the opera about testing the ties of love.

Michael Zyzak – the unanimous winner of the David Popper Cello International Competition in Hungary – will perform during the Operatic Treasures concert Sunday, April 27, in Aurora University's Crimi Auditorium in Aurora.

The opera has three performances starting Wednesday, and while it is a local premiere, it has great credentials, including those of the composer, Ricky Ian Gordon, who has a number of acclaimed works to his credit.

Quadrophenia: Live in London captures the final concert of the trek, which they played before their hometown crowd last July.

The OpA©ra de MontrA©al company will mount only a quartet of operas in 2014-15, along with a traditional Gala, but not the equally traditional production by the Atelier lyrique .

Lee University's Opera Theatre will present various scenes from well-known operas on Sunday, April 27, at 3 p.m. in Squires Recital Hall, located in Lee's Humanities Center.

Kiss frontman Paul Stanley feels a strong connection to the title character of "The Phantom of the Opera," and not just because he's spent nearly 40 years onstage with his face covered in paint.

Jon Lebkowsky sez, "My amazing friend, neurocomputing specialist, musician & composer David Demaris has created the most geek-tastic opera ever, For Fear the Glass May Shatter .

After Clinton praised the Rain Forest Foundation, he thanked Sting, Styler, and others for their efforts with the organization.

Today, in honor of Holy Week, we shine a special spotlight on one of the most revered and rockin' musicals ever written, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice 's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.

Sting singing Italian opera? Kevin Spacey impersonating Bill Clinton ...while standing next to Bill Clinton? Paul Simon cracking jokes like a stand-up comic? It could only happen at Sting's long-running Rainforest Benefit Concert, which marked 25 years of fundraising Thursday night at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall.