Opera News

Superstar soprano Kathleen Battle brings her "Underground Railroad" program back to the Music Center at Strathmore .

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

Indianapolis Opera's truncated 2012/2013 season featured only three productions - one of which was actually an IU Opera presentation.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty For the first time Ukrainian musician received the most prestigious music award in the world from the British Royal Philharmonic Society This is the highest award in Britain in the sphere of classical music performance, a kind of musical ... (more)

The Summer 2013 season of the San Francisco Opera begins next month on Wednesday, June 5, and will continue through Sunday, July 7. As usual, the season will offer three operas.

The televised extravaganza, with an audience of 125 million worldwide, is now in its 58th year.

OPERA aficionados can look forward to a summer performance of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream as part of Goldsmiths' six-week summer music festival, PureGold.

The librettist of Nixon in China , Alice Goodman, had it right when she specified the work had to be a heroic opera, not a satire.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has a new process to select artists who receive one of the nation's top arts prizes, the Kennedy Center Honors, after an outside group last year said Latinos have been largely excluded.

Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist and rock icon Pete Townshend attended the revival production of his seminal rock opera TOMMY at the Stratford Festival in Canada last night and joined the cast onstage for the curtain call.

Utah Symphony and Utah Opera musicians regularly perform in Abravanel Hall and the Capitol Theatre, but for the month of May they're taking their music on the road to help raise awareness Alzheimer's and dementia.

The 34-year-old Nelsons, a native of Latvia, said in a statement that he is "deeply honored and touched" by the appointment and plans to make his first appearance in Boston as the orchestra's 15th music director in June.

"Cuatro Corridos," the new chamber opera by UC San Diego soprano Susan Narucki and Mexican author Jorge Volpi, earned rave reviews for its May 8 premiere on campus.

The AmericanUniversity in Cairo Music Department hit all the right notes in their double feature of "The Telephone" and "Les Miserables". The night opened with "The Telephone," a one-act comedic opera telling the story of a man who is attempting to propose to his sweetheart but finds himself continuously interrupted by her ringing telephone.

One of the most talented young vocalists in the country is getting ready to begin a dual-major program at the University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music.

Opera singers from Vancouver's North Star Performing Arts Management perform during the 2011 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Festival.

The Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra will complete its 34th season with two concerts playing music to celebrate the coming of spring.

Prepare to be taken home to those old country roads with Mike Eldred in The Very Best of John Denver at 8 p.m. May 17 at the Newberry Opera House.

Darcia Parada, who trained at the Banff Centre and the Mannes College of Music in New York, launched Mercury Opera in 1999.

San Francisco Opera celebrates the opening of its 91st season on September 6, 2013 with a gala opening night like none other.