Opera News

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, an international opera star, has died, her husband Sverker Olow says.

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 ...

As a warmup for the holiday season, the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers are presenting a collection of songs celebrating the ups, downs and foibles of such human passions as romance, coffee and tobacco - and to demonstrate that J.S. Bach and his fellows of the Baroque era did something other than compose church music.

The thought of a rather large woman, bosom boosted and bore, wearing Viking horns and belting out some sort of ear-piercing stream of an unrecognizable, foreign language may be a slightly intimidating image to wrap your head around, or perhaps to even take seriously.

Molly Fillmore portrays Salome on Saturday. Nancy Gustafson appears Sunday. Photo courtesy OF Tim Fuller, arizona Opera More Photos : a Richard Strauss' "Salome" a Presented by: Arizona Opera.

The marquee value could hardly be less inviting, but serious operagoers shouldn't deprive themselves of Leos Janacek's From the House of the Dead in a powerful new Metropolitan Opera production by Patrice Chreau.

As a downtown group pushes for the city to solve problems with some of the homeless people who congregate at Five Points Park, a city commissioner is recommending a few symphonies, and maybe an aria or two.

Mount Berry, GA 30149 E.H. Young Theatre on Berry College Campus. cost: $7 + There is a discounted price on opening night of $5.00 more info: www.berry.edu/academics/humanities/finearts/theatre/ The Berry College Theatre Company Presents: Lend Me A Tenor By Ken Ludwig Lend Me A Tenor is a madcap, screwball musical comedy guaranteed to leave the ...

Collaboration and new management signal a new era for Commonwealth Opera. A production of Mozart's classic comic opera "Cosi fan tutte" ushers in this new era on Nov.

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

NEIL Campbell's haunting work Ghost Stories - A Night Opera is receiving its Wirral premiere this week as part of the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain.

Eric Stern , leader of the Vagabond Opera, tried to avoid the accordion but later realized it was the instrument he was meant to play.

The Nevada Chamber Opera is scheduled to perform Johann Strauss II's 'Die Fledermaus' at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Nightingale Concert Hall in the Church Fine Arts Complex at the University of Nevada, Reno.

In February, the center unveiled the thoroughly renovated Alice Tully Hall, one of the citya TMs premier spaces for chamber music.

Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.

Writing opera a ' or indeed any form of entertainment a ' for children is often considered a marginal activity.

This photo released by Washington National Opera shows conductor Philippe Auguin.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Opera enthusiasts can listen to the stars of tomorrow this weekend at the University of Kentucky as the district auditions for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions program take the Memorial Hall stage.

The Greater Miami Opera never had much luck getting money from the state of Florida.

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 ...