Opera News

Artistic director Jill Anna Ponasik has the nimble, singer-centered company performing in five different locations during the 2014-'15 season.

With a terrific cast, a hauntingly beautiful score and an impressive high-tech scenic design, "Silent Night" was nothing short of breathtaking.

Eric Owens at the Barns at Wolf Trap, where he is artist-in-residence with the Wolf Trap Opera this summer, some 20 years after taking part in the program himself.

The Hartford Wagner Festival planned to perform "Das Rheingold" in August without an orchestra by using a score created from digital samples of instruments.

The Hartford Wagner Festival planned to perform "Das Rheingold" in August without an orchestra by using a score created from digital samples of instruments.

Russian state TV reports say a major Prague art gallery is displaying a photo exhibit in support of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.

Two Milwaukee guys who spent years making Skylight Music Theatre shows sound great are now doing the same thing for the national tour of "The Phantom of the Opera."

ILKLEY Concert Club announces the details of its 69th Season this week with the publication of the 2014/2015 season brochure.

OPERA lovers will have the chance to enjoy a spectacular showing of La Boheme on Tuesday - in the centre of town.

Opera Australia will perform a new version of Mozart's The Magic Flute at The Capital theatre in Bendigo on July 22. The production is an Indiana Jones-inspired take on Mozart's classic and will feature 12 principal artists of the company, a live orchestra and for the first time, a local children's chorus.

It's not simply the inspiration of living under our beautiful flat-topped mountain with its snowy table cloth that makes Cape Town the undisputed opera capital of South Africa.

Mill City Opera is sticking to the plans that made it a big hit in the company's first two years.

Despite everyone who braved the thunderclouds on opening night of the touring version of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess , there was simply no getting around it: The Muny felt a little empty.

Conner W. Allison and Elizabet Feins practice a scene during a rehearsal for "Pirates of Penzance" at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Naples on Tuesday, July r, 2014.

Kingston Orpheus Choir was founded in 1944 after an appeal calling on singers by musical director George Anderson was put into the Surrey Comet.

Greater Worcester Opera's popular Summer Concert Series gets underway at 7:30 p.m. July 16 with "Broadway Melodies" at Birches Auditorium, 65 Briarwood Circle, Worcester.

A UNIQUE concert performance of Puccini's opera Tosca is to take place for one night only at the Bowdon Festival.

The Cistercian ruins of a much loved abbey in Leeds are once again set to host an outdoor classical musical event to remember.

OA's "Rigoletto" is a new production by Roger Hodgman, who admits in his notes that he is more familiar with straight theatre than with the conventions of opera.

Today we salute the longest-running musical in Broadway history in the week of its record-breaking 11,000th performance, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.