Opera News

To many ballet fans, opera is all about melodrama and inappropriate vocalising. Yet, to opera aficionados, ballet can seem limited and dull.

Time is short this morning - jury duty continues - so I'm simply going to give you the press release direct from the Boston Symphony Orchestra with all the plans for next summer's Tanglewood season, including the return of Seiji Ozawa, the jazz fest and two James Taylor/Carole King shows that will sell out so fast it will warp the space/time ...

If you've watched a Bugs Bunny cartoon, you've likely heard music from "The Barber of Seville." Really, if you've watched TV at all, you've likely heard its familiar chorus, "Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!" Gioacchino Rossini's comic opera has been a favorite with audiences since it premiered in Rome in 1816.

IN these days of economic gloom and dark, chilly nights, an evening of froth and utter silliness comes as a welcome respite.

Top line: More than 100 voices come together to perform some of the most beautiful and memorable choruses from 11 operas in a night of celebration for the Mississippi Opera.

The world ended on a stage devoid of scenery or special effects, just a soprano in a dark sequined dress singing of redemption and love.

The Israel Opera has a proud history of outreach through community-based opera productions in which professional singers take the principal roles and people from the neighborhood, the rest.

Soprano Tracy Dahl sang splendidly at Vancouver Opera's anniversary gala. Vancouver Opera Golden anniversary Concert Leonard Bernstein's overture to Candide opened Vancouver Opera's 50th-anniversary gala with a flash of showmanship.

Opera Santa Barbara has concocted a delicious family treat to brighten the darkening days of November, a special one-hour production of Gilbert and Sullivan's madcap operetta The Pirates of Penzance , at 5 p.m. Saturday and 4:30 p.m. Sunday in the Lobero Theatre .

Stunning. Fascinating. Haunting. These are the first words that come to mind when attempting to describe what Denver's Opera Colorado put up on the Ellie Caulkins Opera House stage to open their new season.

Christmas-themed musical extravaganza Babes in Toyland will bring some festive cheer to the Secombe Theatre next week, courtesy of the Wimbledon Light Opera Society.

Exciting return for N.Y.C. Opera and 'Esther' By David A. Rosenberg Hour Theater Critic As the orchestra tuned up before the start of New York City Opera's production of "Esther" at the newly renovated Koch Theater, my companion turned to me and said, "I hope that's not what the opera will sound like." His trepidation was understandable since Hugo ...

There is a signature moment in Act 2 of Giuseppi Verdi's "Otello" in which the title character confronts his jealous demon - and becomes one with it.

Famed mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne will donate her portrait by artist John Foote to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery on November 12.

Actors perform during a dress rehearsal of the San Francisco Opera's upcoming production of Verdi's "Otello" at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif.

I HAVE STRONG RESERVATIONS about the effectiveness of live musical performances seen on video.

George H. W. Bush was elected President on this day in 1988. Today is Sunday, Nov.

Gilbert & Sullivan's light opera "The Mikado" will be performed this weekend at Century II's Mary Jane Teall Theater, 225 W. Douglas.

Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which includes a composition by his "anti-semitic" great-grandfather. Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim is leading Monday's performance at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, which is to include A ...

Baritone Marco Vratogna and soprano Zvetelina Vassileva co-star in Verdi's masterpiece opening this Sunday at the War Memorial Opera House By SeA n Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka San Francisco Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's masterwork OTELLO , opening Sunday afternoon, November 8th, with six subsequent performances ...