Opera News

Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner wrote some of the most famous music of all time.

One of Spoleto's grand operas this year is a double bill featuring Puccini's Le Villi and Umberto Giordano's Mese Mariano .

"Oh my God! I've done the opera for 14 seasons!" said Doug Nagel, commenting on his decision to leave the Rimrock Opera.

Richard Wagner, who turned 200 yesterday, wrote one of the great epic stories ever in his Ring of the Nibelung .

May 22, 2013 - CAMP HILL, Pa. -- Camp Hill Light Opera Experience, or CHLOE, will present two works, the award-winning new show, Not A Tenor, and perennial favorite Patience, by Gilbert & Sullivan, during its inaugural light opera festival, June 13-16, 2013, at the Grace Milliman Pollock PAC in Camp Hill.

The Ministry of Defence has this afternoon named the soldier killed in yesterday's attack in Woolwick as 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby, of of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Welsh actor Rhys is up against Brits Damian Lewis and Andrew Lincoln for the best actor award at a ceremony to be held next month in Los Angeles Welsh National ... (more)

La Scala's manager says the 2013-14 season will have three fewer operas than usual due to the economic crisis.

It was Nicholas Hytner's third big opening in as many weeks. And how better to follow celebrated productions of Verdi's Don Carlo starring Jonas Kaufmann at the Royal Opera House and Shakespeare's Othello with Adrian Lester at the National Theatre than an evening in conversation at the London Jewish Cultural Centre.

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.

The works of famed Italian operatic composer, Giuseppe Verdi, are noted for their emotional intensity, tuneful melodies and dramatic characterizations.

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.

As I'm sure is true for many of you, I first became aware of Audra McDonald from her performance in Terrence McNally's play, "Master Class." She played the role of a young, aspiring opera singer attending Maria Callas's Master Class at New York's Juilliard School of Music .

Give it a couple more years, and Burlington's 12-year-old Spielpalast Cabaret will have lasted as long as the Weimar Republic whose popular theater inspired it.

North Fort Myers High School was second to none at the Barbara B. Mann High School Musical Awards at the Mann Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers last Monday.

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.

Email: karent@thomas-pr.com Website: http://www.greatkat.com Music: http://www.greatkat.com/04/wagnerride.mp3 HAPPY 200th BIRTHDAY RICHARD WAGNER , GENIUS OPERA COMPOSER, From THE GREAT KAT GUITAR SHREDDER! The Great Kat SHREDS GUITAR & VIOLIN on WAGNER'S "THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES' with Symphony Orchestra and Opera Singers! LISTEN Now at: ... (more)

With today marking the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth, Linda Cookson heads to Italy's Amalfi coast to visit the composer's favourite resort - still a celebrity hang-out today It's only the first night of my visit, and I'm beginning to wonder if I'm the only non-famous person to have stayed in this lovely southern Italian town.

The Italia 150 Committee of The Oshawa Italian Recreation Club is marking the milestone by bringing some special guests to Oshawa.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra completed its 2012-13 Princeton concert series in grand fashion on Friday night with a performance full of precision, operatic flair, and innovative musical composition.

I'm looking at a photograph of my father when he was a graduate student at Indiana University.