Opera News

Christoph Von Dohnanyi Returns and Paul Lewis Makes Debut With BRAHM'S PIANO CONCERTO NO.

Members of the company of long-running West End mega musical mega-hit THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA wowed viewers with a spectacular recreation of the showstopping "Masquerade" production number on the season finale of hit UK reality competition series DANCING ON ICE and a clip of the performance is now available to view.

Gerard Mortier, a Belgian opera director whose nonconformist style often grated the tradition-bound elite and who became a fiercely avant-garde impresario, has died.

Berkeley Heights, NJ - On the weekend of March 28th, Berkeley Light Opera Company will present the seldom performed and much loved rock opera Chess the Musical .

Pieces being played include Vivaldi's Concerto di Parigi in G Minor, Bach's Concert for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor and Mozart's Divertimento F. The event is being staged by Chatteris Music Society on Friday March 21 at 7.30pm in The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Chatteris.

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.