Young Peking opera artists are devoting years to mastering its demanding techniques, hoping to win over today's audiences ...

Beth Morrison has shepherded dozens of new works into existence over the past 20 years. And her footprint continues to grow.

The old and nuanced art of Peking opera is working hard to flourish in an era of digital entertainment and incessant screens.

FARGO — If a night at the opera doesn’t sound as enticing as a night on the couch, then you should meet opera singers Julie Ly and Karly Ritland. They could well change your mind. “Opera often gets a ...

Retiring from opera has its own set of challenges, but there is plenty I share with the other millions of Americans ending ...

Playful and satirical, the Marx Brothers’ 1935 A Night at the Opera pokes fun at opera’s elitism while celebrating its spectacle, capturing the era’s ambivalence toward “high” art forms seen as both ...

Opera San José General Director/CEO Shawna Lucey has revealed the opera company’s 2024-25 Artists-in-Residence, a cohort of accomplished opera talents who will be featured in this season’s four ...

Johan Strauss II's masterwork, which will be performed Jan. 16 and 18 by the Cedar Rapids Opera with Orchestra Iowa at the ...

The Canadian Opera Company's prestigious Ensemble Studio has invited two of the country's most talented sopranos to join its ...

From boos to vegetables, opera stars have had to put up with all sorts being aimed in their direction over the centuries ...

When "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered, 100 years ago, the term "horror film" didn't exist. "Spook melodrama," it was called. A new — and offbeat — thing. "I spoke to a lot of old-timers who saw it ...

With sun-dappled landscapes and the azure allure of the Mediterranean, the French Riviera—also known as the Côte d’Azur—has seduced artists from Claude Monet to Pablo Picasso to Marc Chagall. A new ...