Opera News

The new album by Canadian-Armenian opera singer, prominent soprano, winner of a number of contests Isabel Bayrakdarian titled "Troubadour and the Nightingale" has been nominated for the Juno Awards for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance.

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Torture, murder and suicide - you can find it all in Puccini's opera Tosca, which was first enjoyed by audiences in January 1900.

Buoyed by a palpable, hard-won, in-your-face confidence, Seven Tyrants' revived version of Beggar's Opera is a stunning improvement over its audacious beginnings.

"You hear this stunning music and you think, this man must have been the most confident person in the world.

The Darlington and District branch of the Samaritans will benefit from a concert by Opera by Design, being held at Cockerton Methodist Church on Saturday , at 7.30pm.

Gerard Mortier, the Belgian opera director whose nonconformist style often grated the tradition-bound elite and who worked tirelessly to bring the art closer to the public, has died.

The arrival of spring means the opening of an opera season. Kicking off this spring opera lineup are three classic operas, each with a different color and charm: comedy, tragedy and something in between.

The Friends of the Westfield Memorial Library are thrilled to once again sponsor a Wednesday evening subscription series to the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in New York.

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.