Opera News

What: Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore , an opera presented by the University of North Texas College of Music When: 8 p.m. Aug.

Opera New Jersey continued its very busy summer season this past weekend with continued performances of La Traviata and La Cenerentola , as well as opening a third production, Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow .

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The San Francisco Opera House rang with especially loud cheers Sunday afternoon July 6 as a vigorous Napa Valley contingent watched their home-town girl, the internationally acclaimed soprano Ruth Ann Swenson, ...

An adaptation of Shakespeare's 1603 dark comedy "Measure for Measure," Richard Wagner's 1836 crazy-quilt opera "Das Liebesverbot" , the composer's reaction to suffocating German Puritanism, received its ...

A growth on a kidney removed from conductor James Levine was malignant, but doctors say the cancer was caught early and no further treatment is needed, the Boston Symphony Orchestra said in a statement Tuesday.

If you couldn't get to the New York Metropolitan Opera, and missed the broadcasts in cinemas, never fear.

The Richard Wagner bicentenary is still five years off and the Bayreuth Festival's 100th edition even further along in 2011, but this year's events on the fabled Green Hill in Germany will make history for ...

If the large crowd's response to the two-act opera was any indication, Wagner was ahead of his time.

LIVERMORE VALLEY OPERA is offering a challenging but fun season with two operas based on the same source, the 18th century play "The Marriage of Figaro." In October, you'll meet Figaro and Susanna, Rosina and ...

Classics by Bizet, Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan will sound throughout the Cesar Chavez Community Auditorium in Riverside today, as teenagers and adults who attended the city's first operatic workshop perform ...

The opera season doesn't start for another five months. We're still in the midst of the summer doldrums, for heaven's sake.

The noise that you here in the countryside is almost entirely machine made except for this time of year when strains of Bizet and Puccini can be heard for it’s the season of country-house opera Thursday, ...

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and set designer Thomas Lynch have been named Seattle Opera Artists of the Year.

The Paris Opera is bringing modern productions of the Western operatic repertoire to Japan in a tour of unprecedented size set against the backdrop of 150 years of Franco-Japanese relations.

Donna-Marie Hughes adores singing. Lee Morgan talked to her about her voice, her career and Rigoletto, which kicks off with New Devon Opera tomorrow from the Royal William Yard, Plymouth - Singing is the ...

La Boheme's stage director at Opera in the Ozarks, Amy Axelson, received post-graduate training at the Second City Training Center in Chicago in Improvisational Comedy.

It would seem obvious from the get-go that an opera called "Il Trovatore" would have to have a really talented singer in the title role to lay claim to any success at all.

Alan Stone adored singers and singing and was in the thick of opera practically all his life.

For all of this community's affluence, superb venues, and ample IQ points, opera hasn't been the most dependable presence here, though this fifth season of Opera New Jersey may be a positive turning point.