Sierra was 27, an infant by opera standards, when she sang her first Gilda at the Met. Already, she was capable of beautiful ...

Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppi Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth.

Evan LeRoy Johnson returns to Prague for a new staging of Mozart’s Idomeneo after conquering Dvořák’s consonant nightmares.

Opera thrives on competition as much as collaboration—on who can sing higher, louder, longer, more passionately; what production can seduce or scandalize ...

Skopje, 3 October 2025 (MIA) — The National Opera and Ballet opens its 2025-26 season Friday evening with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, K. 626. "One of the most powerful and emotional ...

The schlock-gothic Andrew Lloyd Webber megahit returns to keep Phans on their toes. For the rest of us, this immersive production is neither fun nor emotionally resonant. Jeff Kready and Anna Zavelson ...

Lane sets the action in 1890s New York, with the family rivalry between two successful Italian immigrant families: the Capulets in Entertainment and the Montagues in Finance. Apart from serving as a ...

Amarillo Opera is presenting Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" for one night only on Saturday, Oct. 4. The opera, directed locally by Cynthia Stokes, tells a story of love, mischief, and forgiveness ...

Mears plays mostly by the Puccini/Giacosa/Illica rulebook of love and terror in totalitarian Rome - foolish the director who would throw the musically and ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Growing up on an island in New Zealand, Sophia Johnson didn’t have a TV. “My dad was a writer and ...

Miles Mykkanen grew up wanting to sing and dance on Broadway, but he was turned down by the musical theater programs he applied to for college. So he had to "settle" for studying opera at the ...