Opera News

Among other things, "The Great Gatsby" is about the desire to reclaim, or simply reinvent, a lost past.

JJ Pearce High School's performance of The Phantom of the Opera is a huge success with only seven performances remaining.

Today, the Smithfield pooch - full name Ecco D'Oro - is on his way to New York City to compete for the first time in the celebrated Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

Weeks after a musicians' lockout threatened its future, the New York City Opera begins its 2012 season today with a performance of "La Traviata" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this afternoon.

The longest-running show in Broadway history, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, offered its 10,000th performance yesterday at 2 PM as a special benefit for The Actors Fund.

It was rejected by TV, given a thumbs-down by critics after its stage premier, but in recent years Aaron Copland's "The Tender Land" has become a popular opera, especially for colleges.

More than 250 guests walked the red carpet into the Kravis Center Jan. 20 for the celebration of Palm Beach Opera's 50th anniversary.

Whitney Houston's downfall was so long and sad that, in an impatient public's mind, it overshadowed her many accomplishments.

Noah Stewart has the swagger of Puffy and the voice of Paul Robeson. Noah's musical development started in Harlem where he studied classical music at The Harlem School of the Arts.

Jay Hunter Morris has received glowing reviews for his role as Siegfried in the Metropolitan Opera's most recent production of Wagner's Ring Cycle .

The opening concert of the season sets the tone, launching into this interesting period with Duke Ellington's 'Harlem' and Ferdinand Grofe's famous 'Grand Canyon Suite' on a program with George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue'' and variations on 'I Got Rhythm.' / ASSOCIATED PRESS The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra recently unveiled its 2012-13 roster ... (more)

"Gotterdammerung," the final installment in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle, is the most theatrically effective staging of the four works in this epic series, and the clearest representation of the director Robert Lepage's vision.

Puccini's "Tosca" is a tragic love story packed with edge-of-the-seat thrills and a melodramatic score.

With the Live in HD program, the Metropolitan Opera has been able to capture new audiences worldwide.

More than any of its neighbors on Bardstown Road's restaurant row, Ramsi's Cafe on the World is a... The Kentucky Opera announced Friday that about 35 volunteer musicians from the community will play orchestral music to accompany next week's performances of Franz Lehar's operetta 'The Merry Widow.' The opera's general director, David Roth, told The ... (more)

Philip Glass' "The Perfect American," imagining the final months of the life of Walt Disney, will have its world premiere at Madrid's Teatro Real on Jan.

In 1872, a dissatisfied opera-goer who had attended a performance of Verdi's "Aida" in Parma, Italy, wrote to the composer asking for his money back.

Some works of art pull you in by the clearest, most direct of means; you know why you're hooked at the start and you know what you've been through when it's all over.

Baritone Matthew Worth as Oprhe and soprano Sara Jakubiak as Eurydice in the Virginia Opera's production of Orphe.

Simone Alberghini as Figaro and Ava Pine as Susanna in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," an opera of romance among the aristocracy of late-18th century Spain with lots of sex and intrigue.