Opera News

LIVERMORE VALLEY OPERA is offering a challenging but fun season with two operas based on the same source, the 18th century play "The Marriage of Figaro." In October, you'll meet Figaro and Susanna, Rosina and ...

Classics by Bizet, Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan will sound throughout the Cesar Chavez Community Auditorium in Riverside today, as teenagers and adults who attended the city's first operatic workshop perform ...

The opera season doesn't start for another five months. We're still in the midst of the summer doldrums, for heaven's sake.

The noise that you here in the countryside is almost entirely machine made except for this time of year when strains of Bizet and Puccini can be heard for it’s the season of country-house opera Thursday, ...

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and set designer Thomas Lynch have been named Seattle Opera Artists of the Year.

The Paris Opera is bringing modern productions of the Western operatic repertoire to Japan in a tour of unprecedented size set against the backdrop of 150 years of Franco-Japanese relations.

Donna-Marie Hughes adores singing. Lee Morgan talked to her about her voice, her career and Rigoletto, which kicks off with New Devon Opera tomorrow from the Royal William Yard, Plymouth - Singing is the ...

La Boheme's stage director at Opera in the Ozarks, Amy Axelson, received post-graduate training at the Second City Training Center in Chicago in Improvisational Comedy.

It would seem obvious from the get-go that an opera called "Il Trovatore" would have to have a really talented singer in the title role to lay claim to any success at all.

Alan Stone adored singers and singing and was in the thick of opera practically all his life.

For all of this community's affluence, superb venues, and ample IQ points, opera hasn't been the most dependable presence here, though this fifth season of Opera New Jersey may be a positive turning point.

'Carmen' is not new to the Hollywood Bowl . On July 8, 1922, three days before the first season of 'Symphonies Under the Stars,' the Los Angeles Philharmonic, itself only 3 years old, mounted a lavish ...

The plaza of San Marco in Venice, seen from the Grand Canal, is a setting for both Verdi's opera, and the dark bit of history that inspired it.

Pasadena Pops Orchestra Descanso Gardens 1418 Descanso Drive La Canada Flintridge 7 tonight; gates open at 5:30 p.m. $20-$90 793-7172, Ext.

Cimarron Circuit Opera is trying something new with its summer production of "Rogues, Rhythm and Romance: An Evening of Grand Operetta." "This is the first time CCOC has tried anything like this," said director ...

From Purcell to Wagner to Sondheim, opera-makers have never been able to resist a witch.

In Theodor Adorno's famous dictum, writing poetry "after Auschwitz" was a barbaric notion, but what about opera after the war? The genre was pronounced dead by modernists who wanted a clean break from the past.

Marin Shakespeare Company opening of "Amadeus" The music of Mozart will be celebrated Saturday, July 19 at opening night festivities of Marin Shakespeare Company's production of AMADEUS, Peter Shaffer's ...

Here's yet one more thing we can blame on the writers' strike. Surely had CBS not been terrified that it would run out of product, it would not have imported the Canadian cop show Flashpoint , a cut-rate ...

Friday, 11 July 2008, 3:08 pm Press Release: Solid Energy NZ MEDIA RELEASE – July 2008 Following a highly successful inaugural tour, the Solid Energy Ensemble of Southern Opera is gearing up for its ...