Once banned from opera houses during the Jim Crow era, rarely-seen works by American composers of color are finally gracing U.S. stages, thanks to two New Orleans-based mezzo-sopranos. In ...

When it comes to the holidays in the opera world there are few standards as beloved as Gian Carlo Menotti’s AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS. The first opera written expressly for television and first ...

At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty Hollywood films. On Friday ...

After 138 years, what is thought to be the earliest existing opera by a Black American composer is finally getting its world premiere. A concert opera performance of Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane,” which is ...

Gabriel Preisser had an idea, the kind of idea about which cartoon characters would say, “That’s so crazy it just might work.” What if a beloved and sacred musical tradition for many could be expanded ...

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Lyric Opera’s Don Giovanni almost manhandles the giant Municipal Auditorium Municipal Auditorium is a beautiful structure built in 1926. Since the ’40s it was used as an opera venue among other things ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Jonathan Bryan as Wyatt (left) and Grace Kahl as Meridian (right). Photos are by David Goltra. Two ...

The opera “Andromeda” being performed in Lithuania as a part of the 700th anniversary of the country’s capital city of Vilnius. Andromeda is an historical Baroque-style opera written in the 1600s by a ...

Both of them died at Auschwitz, and the opera was not performed until 1975 in Amsterdam. The story features the Emperor of Atlantis, played by Michael Heap, pictured, who decides to wage war on the ...

With its ravishing June production of Agostino Steffani’s 1688 opera, Niobe, Queen of Thebes, the Boston Early Music Festival has confirmed its unique and invaluable role within the early music ...

Oscar Winner Morricone’s Lost Opera Debuts in Naples After 30 Years NAPLES, Italy (AP) — At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable ...