Opera News

After seven seasons of building an opera company from scratch, conductor Richard Gill has big plans for a key a cappella choral group.

After a gap of 13 years, Richard Strauss's biggest and most ambitious opera returns to London - in triumph.

Houston Grand Opera is presenting the World Premiere of A COFFIN IN EGYPT, a one-act chamber opera based on Horton Foote 's play by the same title.

Nathan Gunn has made a reputation as one of the most exciting and in-demand baritones of the day.

Plenty of contemporary directors feel compelled to leave a calling card on an opera's front porch, often by reinterpreting or updating a work in an original way, typically with the stated goal of making it more immediately resonant for today's audiences.

It was "Opera and Orchids" at the orchid-bedecked Agua Caliente Resort ballroom as mezzo soprano Laurie Rubin and pianist Jennifer Taira entertained more than 200 guests benefiting The Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind.

BACKSTAGE, ON STAGE It goes like this: Boy meets girl. Girl's guardian gets in the way.

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera announces that Elio Messano from Wayne has been selected to perform with the Verismo Opera Chorus .

Currently at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is a new production by Elkhanah Pulitzer, one of two created by L.A. Opera this year .

The Michigan Opera Theatre Children's Chorus will perform Brundibar this weekend at the Detroit Opera House.

This unconventional musical, part indie rock opera, part tragic romance, will take your breath away from the first pounding chorus to the last plaintiff wail.

Opera Idaho has a season filled with outstanding operas, incredible collaborations and glorious male voices! The new season will be the season of the baritone, their glorious resonant sound giving life to each opera's title character.

Selections from an opera composed in the 1800s as an homage to "Tabasco" hot sauce and subsequently lost for more than a century will be performed for the first time in 120 years Saturday at Trinity Episcopal Church.

The community opera called Road Rage took place last July as part of the renowned opera's season, which is held at the Wormsley Estate, near Stokenchurch.

Nearly a decade ago, Julia Rose Udine, of Voorhees , was chosen as one of several local children to perform in "Evita" when the national tour made a stop at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.

Leaving behind the light-hearted realms of old Heidelberg and Bohemian bucolia, we plunge once more into the bosom of loss and despair.

Goethe’s well-known epistolary novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther” will spring to life at the Douglass Theatre on Saturday when the historic venue hosts the HD broadcast of Jules Massenet’s “Werther” from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Opera Colorado is back with the production of "Rigoletto" featuring Gordon Hawkins as Rigoletto, background, Rachele Gilmore as Gilda and Ren Barbera as Duke of Mantua.

Mill City Summer Opera, which stages performances in the open air ruin courtyard at Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, will perform Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" in July.

Today is Thursday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2014. There are 293 days left in the year.