Opera Orlando closes its 2021-22 Mainstage Verdi season with Rigoletto, the composer's first significant success. This tragic masterpiece portrays the story of a deformed court jester caught in a ...

During a special live Zoom meeting with current New Orleans Opera subscribers on May 3, Clare Burovac, general director of the New Orleans opera announced, “The Opera is returning to the theater for ...

Technically, there is no such Emmy as the “Best Soap Opera in 2021” Emmy. The “highest-ranking” Emmy is actually called the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy. And, this year, General Hospital took home ...

Kim's music directorship begins with Tosca, a masterpiece central to San Francisco Opera since it opened the War Memorial Opera House in 1932. Kim will also lead Live and In Concert: The Homecoming on ...

In 2021, Terence Blanchard and Wayne Shorter realized long-held dreams: the celebrated musicians both premiered operas. These are great stories that represent overdue opportunity and a fresh aesthetic ...

NEW YORK — “We bend, we don’t break. We sway!” sings the chorus in the second act of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” The words described how much of the audience of about 4,000 at the ...

Dressed head to toe in black Armani, Peter Gelb is white-knuckling the railing on the sixth floor of the Metropolitan Opera House. “I haven’t been up here in 16 months,” he says dazedly. It’s opening ...

This fall, The Metropolitan Opera reopened a year and a half after shutting its doors following the coronavirus lockdown. For smaller venues and opera companies, the road back to indoor performances ...

Covid guidelines had to be closely followed at all rehearsals; inspectors came along to ensure their correct execution (with a will to help, I understand). At The Grange, problems of having a full ...

For many, the return to the opera house has been a risk willingly taken — in service of the palpable human desire for live connection and an overwhelming need for the kind of emotional sustenance ...

No sentient Chicagoan needs to be reminded that the fall of 2021 is far from a normal autumn when it comes to the performing arts. At least it eclipses 2020, when the curtains remained closed as ...

Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his ...