Opera News

Spain's renowned Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia takes the art to new heights, blending their exacting take on the traditional folk form with a boldly contemporary approach to dance performance.

The coming months will bring the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner and the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten.

After two years without a music director, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has one with the potential to carry the institution into a bold, vibrant future.

Even with one of the world's most athletic opera singers at her side and plenty of practice, American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato reckons the latest London production of Gioachino Rossini's "La Donna Del Lago" is the challenge of a lifetime.

There were more than a few raised eyebrows when Scottish Opera announced that one of its meagre tally of four mainstage productions this season was to be a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

Frederic and Mabel in the North Shore Light Opera Society's version of the late-1800s classic The Pirates of Penzance.

Almost every opera singer in Kyiv strives to get into the company of the National Opera House.

Italian Ambassador to Ukraine Fabrizio Romano: "I have heard this great music composition many times, but this concert in Kyiv was the best!" Significant events and large-scale concerts take place as a part of the Fifth International Easter Assembly "Lord, Lord, By Thy Strength..." This artistic event is devoted to the two outstanding dates - the ... (more)

It started as long ago as 1965. An American undergraduate, listening to a long-playing record in Boston, Massachusetts, had an experience that changed not only his life but the course of musical history.

The Barber of Seville , a postmodern cross between the 1775 Beaumarchais play and the 1816 Rossini opera, is an entertainingly ludicrous affair first staged by Theatre Columbus to acclaim in Toronto in 1996.

Fountain Hills Theater has announced the opening of the classic musical comedy, The Pirates of Penzance.

Love has caused wars, duels, launched fleets, it has built and collapsed empires - a wonderful new show from the award winning Daytime Concert Series will have all of this but luckily only in the form of song! We present many different musical genres such as classics like A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square, Plaisir d'amour, Be My Love, You Are My ... (more)

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has hired Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons to succeed James Levine, an iconic American conductor known for his wild hair and dramatic manner, who left in 2011 due to health problems, it said on Thursday.

The first in a short series of posts commemorating Wagner's two-hundredth birthday, which falls on May 22nd.

Ken Ludwig's comedy Sullivan and Gilbert is on stage at London's Palace Theatre Thursday through May 25, featuring a cast that includes, from left, Rod Culham, Matt Stewart, Duane Woods and Dean Gregory.

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Singers from West Bay Opera's upcoming production of Verdi's "Otello" will present a free preview of the opera's highlights, accompanied by a pianist, at 8 p.m. tomorrow, May 16.

Luke Fairbank and Eriana Holle, both of Hays; Calder Craig, Russell; and Karl Pratt, Hoxie, will spend some time at workshops honing their vocal and performing skills.

LANCE Ingram, described by some as Australia's greatest ever operatic tenor, has died at his home in France, aged 86.

The Mezzo-soprano was performing in the company's production of Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia when she injured herself and had to complete her remaining shows in a wheelchair.