Opera News

Michael Zyzak – the unanimous winner of the David Popper Cello International Competition in Hungary – will perform during the Operatic Treasures concert Sunday, April 27, in Aurora University's Crimi Auditorium in Aurora.

The opera has three performances starting Wednesday, and while it is a local premiere, it has great credentials, including those of the composer, Ricky Ian Gordon, who has a number of acclaimed works to his credit.

Quadrophenia: Live in London captures the final concert of the trek, which they played before their hometown crowd last July.

The OpA©ra de MontrA©al company will mount only a quartet of operas in 2014-15, along with a traditional Gala, but not the equally traditional production by the Atelier lyrique .

Lee University's Opera Theatre will present various scenes from well-known operas on Sunday, April 27, at 3 p.m. in Squires Recital Hall, located in Lee's Humanities Center.

Kiss frontman Paul Stanley feels a strong connection to the title character of "The Phantom of the Opera," and not just because he's spent nearly 40 years onstage with his face covered in paint.

Jon Lebkowsky sez, "My amazing friend, neurocomputing specialist, musician & composer David Demaris has created the most geek-tastic opera ever, For Fear the Glass May Shatter .

After Clinton praised the Rain Forest Foundation, he thanked Sting, Styler, and others for their efforts with the organization.

Today, in honor of Holy Week, we shine a special spotlight on one of the most revered and rockin' musicals ever written, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice 's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.

Sting singing Italian opera? Kevin Spacey impersonating Bill Clinton ...while standing next to Bill Clinton? Paul Simon cracking jokes like a stand-up comic? It could only happen at Sting's long-running Rainforest Benefit Concert, which marked 25 years of fundraising Thursday night at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall.

As soon as you meet baritone Michael Mayes all you can see is what a genuine, warm guy he is.

His latest task is stringing together German composer Max Bruch's Kol Nidrei, a powerful, melodic prayer - and the featured 10-minute solo in the Auburn Symphony Orchestra's April 26-27 concerts at the Auburn Performing Arts Center.

Boulder-bred bluegrass powerhouse String Cheese Incident today announced it will play a free show on University Hill at 6 p.m. April 28. The announcement came via a video from the band that shows keys player Kyle Hollingsworth chasing unsuspecting Boulderites around the Hill with an accordion before he declares, "This is not the same without the ... (more)

Interned in 1943 at Theresienstadt, the so-called "show camp" outside Prague, composer Viktor Ullmann and librettist Peter Kien took aim at the Nazis by creating a satirical opera.

The cast of Fort Worth Opera's upcoming production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte The 2014 Fort Worth Opera Festival starts this weekend and you know what that means: time to head to Cowtown and binge-watch opera.

On Monday, May 12, 2014, AOP hosts its 25th Anniversary Gala honoring Stephen Schwartz , composer and lyricist of Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell as well as the AOP-developed opera Sance on a Wet Afternoon that premiered at Opera Santa Barbara and ran at New York City Opera for ten performances in their 2010-11 Season.

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.