Opera News

Continuing the occasional mash-up of SNLC with Demi Moaned's occasional opera series, 3CM starts with the usual question, changing just the title of the opera: Given that the show ran 5 hours, 50 minutes, with the intermissions, obviously this is one for the diehards.

Weeks after a labor lockout threatened its future, the New York City Opera began its 2012 season Sunday with a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Perhaps to establish their bona fides, critics reviewing PlA cido Domingo in the title role of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" tend to point out that Domingo is not a baritone, as the role calls for.

Yesterday the Metropolitan Opera broadcasted the final segment of their new production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, Gtterdmmerung , via Fathom Event's MET Live in HD Series.

What: The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Xian Zhang, conductor; David Fray, piano When: 2 p.m. today Where: Music Hall Tickets: From $10; $5 kids 6-18. 513-381-3300, www.cincinnatisymphony.org Xian Zhang's journey, from growing up in a small port town in China to conducting the world's greatest orchestras, has been nothing short of astonishing.

The New Providence High School music and drama departments are currently rehearsing the classic Gilbert & Sullivan show, Pirates of Penzance .

Utah Opera Company production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" will open Pittsburgh Opera's next season at the Benedum in October.

The concert opens with Rachmaninoff's romantic "Vocalise." Mulligan will perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No.

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

Pennsylvania Ballet principal dancer Riolama Lorenzo's final performance before retiring is Sunday, but it was already a lovefest Thursday night, when the company opened its Pushing Boundaries series at the Merriam Theater.

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As part of the William H. Gile Series, The Capitol Center for the Arts will present New York's Gilbert & Sullivan Players I've Got a Little Twist on Saturday February 11th at 8pm.

Courtesy photo The Nashua Chamber Orchestra will present its second concert of the 2011-12 season, "French Masters," on Feb.

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)

The New Providence High School music and drama departments are currently rehearsing the classic Gilbert & Sullivan show, "Pirates of Penzance." The farcical story involves a band of comical British pirates, an over-protective nanny, an elderly major general with a large number of eligible daughters, and a group of bumbling policemen.

Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor Fabio Mechetti looks over the score of "La Boheme" during a rehearsal on Feb.

"The Met: Live in HD" rolls on in the new year with the finale of Richard Wagner's acclaimed "Ring Cycle." "Gotterdammerung" is about power and ambition, focusing on Brunnhilde, a heroine tasked with saving the world.

Verdi, Mozart, Wagner, Rossini and a double dose of Puccini -- this is LA Opera's new season, announced Thursday at the Los Angeles Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Placido Domingo will take on another baritone role when the Los Angeles Opera presents its first performances of the Verdi rarity "I Due Foscari" to open its 2012-13 season.