Opera News

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.

As soon as you meet baritone Michael Mayes all you can see is what a genuine, warm guy he is.

His latest task is stringing together German composer Max Bruch's Kol Nidrei, a powerful, melodic prayer - and the featured 10-minute solo in the Auburn Symphony Orchestra's April 26-27 concerts at the Auburn Performing Arts Center.

Boulder-bred bluegrass powerhouse String Cheese Incident today announced it will play a free show on University Hill at 6 p.m. April 28. The announcement came via a video from the band that shows keys player Kyle Hollingsworth chasing unsuspecting Boulderites around the Hill with an accordion before he declares, "This is not the same without the ... (more)

Interned in 1943 at Theresienstadt, the so-called "show camp" outside Prague, composer Viktor Ullmann and librettist Peter Kien took aim at the Nazis by creating a satirical opera.

The cast of Fort Worth Opera's upcoming production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte The 2014 Fort Worth Opera Festival starts this weekend and you know what that means: time to head to Cowtown and binge-watch opera.

On Monday, May 12, 2014, AOP hosts its 25th Anniversary Gala honoring Stephen Schwartz , composer and lyricist of Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell as well as the AOP-developed opera Sance on a Wet Afternoon that premiered at Opera Santa Barbara and ran at New York City Opera for ten performances in their 2010-11 Season.

This striking and ingenious new production of Eugene Onegin , first staged at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden last year, is by that house's director of opera, Kasper Holten.

Ellen Kent has certainly put bums on seats during the course of her tremendously successful career as an opera director more than 3.5 million of them.

The new Alice Cooper documentary Super Duper Alice Cooper will premiere today at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival at the Bow Tie Cinemas Chelsea 7 in New York City.

The Idle Class Magazine, Arkansas' newest print and online publication showcasing the arts throughout the entire state, will celebrate the release of its new Legacy Issue on Friday, April 25, at 8:30 p.m. at The Stolen Glass in Fayetteville.

Musicians at Walt Disney Concert Hall, still in shock Tuesday after the sudden death of a choral singer preparing for the West Coast premiere of Louis Andriessen's "De Materie," said they will perform as planned on Friday despite the tragedy.

Ridgewood-based Pro Arte Chorale is turning 50 this year with no wrinkles and a forever-young outlook.

Long Beach Opera's offbeat double bill provides two iconic American takes on Igor Stravinsky 's whimsical, neoclassical theater piece L'Histoire du Soldat.

Nathalie Robinson-Evans plays Carmen in the Buchanan Park school opera club's presentation of Carmen early next month.

As one of the privileged winners of the challenge, Ollie Jagot secured a tailor-made, behind-the-scenes experience at the Royal Opera House More than 50 students from Sussex Downs Lewes College attended the highly acclaimed Royal Opera House Design Challenge 2014 Awards event in Covent Garden.

A Noise Within, led by Producing Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, announces its 23rd season of classic theater in Southern California.

In 2012/2013, The Who embarked on the Quadrophenia and More Tour, performing their landmark rock opera in its entirety, marking the 40th anniversary of the original 1973 release of this double-album masterpiece.

The San Francisco Opera Guild celebrated their 75th anniversary Thursday, April 10, with POPera! Departing from the opera's traditional association with foreign languages and a massive stage, POPera! took the form of a chic soiree and a lively cabaret, complete with an appearance by San Francisco golden boy, Jonathan Groff .

Bass-baritone Eric Owens plays Hercules in George Frederic Handel's oratorio staged by Canadian Opera Company and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.