Opera News

Norfolk and Norwich Festival artistic director William Galinsky with NNF associate director Patrick Dickie and NNF artistic associate Mikey Martins .

Bryn Terfel has played the world's greatest opera houses, but is heading home for four summer music specials.

Most opera singers are content to take a bow at the end of their performance but Jon Roche went a step further - and went down on bended knee.

Czech-German composer's satire on Adolf Hitler, The Emperor from Atlantis, to be staged at former SS and Gestapo HQ Viktor Ullmann wrote The Emperor from Atlantis while at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in what is now the Czech Republic.

Juan Amaya's first opera, "Cinde'ella," will have its world premiere this weekend at The Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Georgetown.

HOT on the heels of a hugely successful production of The Sound of Music, a North-East drama group has announced its next project.

In an event laden with symbolism for San Antonio's opera future, The Opera San Antonio began a new chapter with its debut, star-studded recital Thursday night at the Majestic Theatre .

I've never made a bucket list. If asked what might be on mine, I can list only going to an opera.

By Nicole Liebermann - The Free Press Published: May 23, 2013 1:00 PM Updated: May 23, 2013 1:31 PM A versatile and unorthodox performer with an international career is bringing his hit one-man show, Opera for Heathens, to The Arts Station on Wednesday, May 29.

La Scala has reduced the number of operas it will stage during the 2013-14 season due to Italy's economic crisis, the theatre's general manager said Thursday.

Love, deception, murder and betrayal come to Northwestern University's Evanston campus this weekend via a modernized version of L'incoronazione di Poppea .

Edo de Waart, an SPCO artistic partner, opens the chamber orchestra's 2013-14 season in September, with music of Beethoven.

According to hyangga, or folk songs from the Silla Kingdom , Cheo Yong was a man who came from nowhere and married a Silla woman.

Stephen Fry is to curate this year's Deloitte Ignite festival at the Royal Opera House exploring the work of the Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: for general audiences; parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; no one younger than 17 ... (more)

Opera star and Grammy nominee Jamie Barton will be featured in a benefit performance at First Baptist Church on May 30.

In the shower or in the car -- with the windows rolled up -- weren't the only places amateur Seattle opera singers could perform Wednesday night.

Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines.

Gioachino Rossini's La Donna Del Lago will be screened live from the world-famous Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, to Empire Cinema in Sunniside.

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