Opera News

Worthing's County Youth Orchestra will be joined by Worthing Symphony Orchestra's conductor John Gibbons as they present a sumptuous feast of romantic music for a Valentine concert .

Actors at the photo call Edmonton Opera's latest production, Pirates of Penzance.

Selections from "Carmen," "Faust" and other French operas will spice up Valentine's Day during the Toledo Opera Gala at 7:30 p.m. Feb.

Few hysterically funny comedies can claim to be based on absolute fact, but Vermont Stage Company's "Souvenir" certainly is one.

Daphne Skinner, Emily Floyd, Bexie Archer and Ellie Woodman are in Sweet Charity.

A little comedy is what opera lovers needed to keep the winter doldrums at bay when Opera Colorado kicked off its winter season with The Barber of Seville .

Lovers of love songs should have plenty to love next weekend. There will be two concerts in celebration of Valentine's Day, each presented by a different organization.

On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Giuseppe Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau.

Newport native Luke Grooms, whose Broadway and Metropolitan Opera successes continue to grow, has added yet another star to his crown.

BLO leaves home with 'Turn of the Screw' Jeffrey Dunn for Boston Lyric Opera Vale Rideout as Peter Quint and Rebecca Nash as Miss Jessel in Boston Lyric Opera's production of "The Turn of the Screw.'' Boston Lyric Opera is on the move.

A new production of Alban Berg's opera "Lulu", which Geneva's Grand Theatre warned was unsuitable for people younger than 16, delighted a packed first-night audience with not a boo or cat-call to be heard.

Nina Stemme returned to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time since her debut run nearly a decade ago, and sang a radiant performance in a charming revival of Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos." The Swedish soprano has made her mark in Wagner - her only previous Met appearances were as Senta.

Soprano Angela Gheorghiu has canceled her remaining two performances of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Bizet's "Carmen." Gheorghiu withdrew in August from her first six performances of the run, which began Dec.

Three members of the Opera Western Reserve's Young Artists troupe from Youngstown stage an impromptu fishing opera with students at St.

Howe versus Gretzky, Ruth versus Cobb. When the barstool talk turns to best opera, Verdi's Otello is a perennial contender, for reasons made abundantly clear by the opening Wednesday of a Canadian Opera Company run in the Four Seasons Centre.

The voice faculty of Coastal Carolina University will give a concert featuring selections from opera, oratorio and musical theater at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb.

Mark Kanny is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's classical music critic and can be reached at 412-320-7877 or via e-mail. The power of tragedy is nobly served in Benjamin Britten's chamber opera "The Rape of Lucretia," which Pittsburgh Opera is presenting through Sunday afternoon.

Everyone is hurting for money these days, and arts groups are no exception. In fact, because they're often considered "luxuries," they're usually among the first to feel the hurt.

In Mozart's comic opera "Cosi fan tutte," a cynical bachelor bets two young men that within 24 hours, he can prove their fiancees unfaithful.

If the horrifying story about Channing Tatum's recent accident is anywhere remotely true to the stories that circulated the Internet lately, you may think he'd not be walking; never mind promoting his new film, Dear John, which comes to theaters on Friday.