Opera News

When I was in high school, I went with my class to see Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme” at the Lyric Theatre.

SUU Opera presents a wildly diverse and hilarious triple-bill featuring two comic operas and some classic songs from the musical theater.

We've got a Baroque opera minifestival going this weekend, with Lyric Opera performing Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito and Haymarket Opera Company offering a double bill by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Le Jugement de Pan and ActA©on .

"The Abduction of Seraglio," the production that led Emperor Joseph II to remark "too many notes" to its composer, seldom is performed today.

From "O Sole Mio" to the aria of Tonio from Donizetti's "La Fille Du Regiment" , the Italian tenor's renditions of operatic pieces became the standard by which opera was measured.

Sarasota Opera has announced it will be host to an exhibition from the Rome Opera House entitled "Homage to Giuseppe Verdi; Celebrating the Bicentennial of his Birth" today, March 8 - March 25, 2014.

Adapted by David Newham from John Gay's original opera. Directed by David Newham.

As I have previously reported, the title of the 2013-14 season of San Francisco Renaissance Voices is Kol Israel: The Voice of Judaism in Early Music , a series of programs curated by Rabbi Reuben Zellman, currently completing a Master of Music degree at San Francisco State University in the area of early music and the Jewish choral repertoire.

Noam Murro had one question when he was asked to direct the follow-up to 2007's bloody swords-and-sandals action film "300": How do you make a sequel to a movie in which everyone died? Zack Snyder's "300" concluded with [spoiler alert!] Sparta's King Leonidas and his few, proud soldiers being gloriously slain while making a heroic stand against the ... (more)

As one half of eighties icons Tears For Fears, Roland Orzabal is best known for his songwriting, having penned such classic hits as Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Shout, Sowing The Seeds Of Love and the haunting Christmas number one, Mad World.

Matthias Goerne got to sing the title role of Berg's "Wozzeck" twice as many times as he bargained for during his trip to New York.

Scott Benson admits that he's a Gilbert & Sullivan nerd - although aficionado would be the kinder term.

Come to the Detroit Opera House on Sunday, March 16, 2014, 2:30pm to watch the Michigan Opera Theatre Children's Chorus perform BRUNDIBAR! .

The stage was strewn with daffodils and a cake was wheeled out as Dame Kiri te Kanawa celebrated her 70th birthday on Thursday singing on stage at Covent Garden where the New Zealand-born soprano first made an international splash more than 40 years ago.

Soprano Danielle Walker as Helene, tenor Heath Huberg as Gaston, and bass Young Bok Kim as Roger in Verdi's Jerusalem.

If you follow University of Colorado Boulder Opera, you've seen it before. But on the other hand, it won't be the same, either.

On announcing the death last week of composer Robert Ashley in New York at 83, the composer and critic Kyle Gann wrote on his blog that Ashley was "the greatest genius of 20th-century opera.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may have died 50 years before the first written version of "The Three Little Pigs" appeared, but that didn't stop Opera Iowa from mashing the music of Mozart with the children's fable during a performance at Indianola Middle School.

A new comic opera, the returns of a stand-up favourite, acclaimed Americana and a celebration of 30 years of Fascinating Aida.

Tenor Alexander Aldren from Penn took part in auditions for a performance of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway smash hit Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.