Opera News

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.

Burnaby soprano ChloA© Hurst sings Mimi in Burnaby Lyric Opera's Sunday afternoon opera concert, featuring the music of La BohA me.

The Chattanooga-based grassroots operatic group, Artisti Affamati, will be presenting the opera, the Mighty Casey, at Engel Stadium on April 24 and 26 at 7:30 p.m. Professional local singers, musicians, directors, and and crew are coming together to present William Schuman's operatic adaptation of the classic baseball poem Casey at the Bat.

Alaska-based composer John Luther Adams has won the Pulitzer Prize for music with an homage to the sea called Become Ocean .

GRAMMY, Classical Brit and Gramophone award-winning opera star Bryn Terfel will soon be embarking on a tour of South Africa, including a stop-over in Durban.

A Norwich theatre is getting ready to welcome a special festival of opera featuring two of German composer Wagner's epic works this summer.

Joint cultural projects involving international partners have become a good tradition at the Donbass Opera.

REVIEW: Minnesota Opera's production puts Mozart's classic into a silent-screen motif.