Opera News

Final touches are being applied to productions of Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" and Puccini's "Suor Angelica," the double-bill being presented Friday and Sunday by Opera Birmingham .

The orchestra announced Wednesday that it will perform "Zodiac Tales" by Bright Sheng.

In the 19th century nationalism and, for those people's ruled over by a foreign power, self-determination were strident themes in many works.

More than half a century before Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone, Clint Eastwood et al brought us an Italian view of the American West's good/bad old days, New York's Metropolitan Opera asked famed Italian composer Giacomo Puccini to make a new opera from a play of the Gold Rush days.

Has any classic Stephen Sondheim musical ever looked quite so ravishing as this Houston Grand Opera production of A Little Night Music , borrowed from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis? Sondheim's multiple Tony-winner, awarded best Book , Score and Musical, freely adapted from Ingmar Bergman 's period movie romance Smiles of a Summer Night , now takes ... (more)

Gander native Susan Watkins has made a life as an opera singer. She was at a hometown charity concert on Feb. 21, when she was presented with a bracelet of pearls that once belonged to Twllingate opera legend, Georgina Stirling.

On Oct. 7, 1985, Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer were celebrating their 36th wedding anniversary onboard the Achille Lauro cruise ship.

Despite the old adage, the life of a touring musician is more than just sex, drugs and rock and roll; a fact Kiwi opera trio Sol3 Mio have only recently discovered.

The L train was out-of-order and the night was freezing, but that didn't stop a crowd from packing into a Bushwick warehouse earlier this month for the last weekend of Puccini's La BohA me, staged by the Brooklyn-based LoftOpera .

The Michigan Opera Theatre Children's Chorus has a legacy of involving gifted children in work that is relevant not only creatively, but socially and historically.

Carmen sat outside the theater's coffee shop wrapped in a chunky gray sweater and leggings, no makeup, smelling more like flowery soap than factory cigarettes.

YOUNG singers from the region were among more than 80 hopefuls to try out for a prestigious role alongside opera superstar Bryn Terfel.

Nicola Cassells, from Ayr, will perform at the Gaiety Theatre on Friday night as part of a Variety Showcase to help raise funds for the historic seaside theatre's refurbishment.

Michigan Opera Theatre president Wayne Brown, left, and artistic director David DiChiera are both excited about the new partnership.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announced Tuesday the first set of performances for its 2014 Summer Season.

Cooper Grodin and Julia Udine star in the national tour of 'The Phantom of the Opera', playing the Ohio Theatre March 5-16 Cooper Grodin and Julia Udine star in the national tour of 'The Phantom of the Opera', playing the Ohio Theatre March 5-16 It's a show that has everything, which makes it no wonder that it's run on Broadway for over two ... (more)

Some how you know when the stars moon and sun are in alignment when the final curtain goes down at the end of a Verdi Opera; you don't want it to end, even after three hours.

Suzan Hansen and Robin Buck will star in the Long Beach Opera's "The Death of Klinghoffer."

If it's mid-March, then it must be time to start filling out those brackets - but before you agonize over whether the Badgers can finally make a run to the Final Four, you'd better start out with a little opera.

Entertainment Editor Gordon Barr chats to Lee Brennan of 911 ahead of the group's gig at the Mil Volvo Tyne Theatre later this month Among them is the long-awaited and critically acclaimed new production of Puccini's opera of the American West, The Girl of the Golden West.