Opera News

EVENTS Premiere. Lesia Ukrainka National Russian Drama Theater. June 20. Wolfgang Goethe.

The Metropolitan Opera will celebrate its longtime Music Director James Levine 's 70th birthday with two full days of special programming on Met Opera Radio .

AIMS president, Richard Lavery, from St Agnes' Belfast and Stephen Shallow, HB, presented the awards.

The students of the Opera Unlimited Summer Youth Opera Day Camp will present a fully-staged abridged production of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Iolanthe on July 12th and 13th at 7 PM in the Highland High School Performing Arts Center.

The Houston Gilbert and Sullivan Society has announced new discounts available for groups and students with valid ID to be implemented for their summer production coming this July to the Cullen Theater at the Wortham Theater Center, H.M.S. Pinafore.

One of the biggest mysteries about the opera "Medee" by late 18th-century composer Luigi Cherubini is why its last few pages are blacked out with charcoal.

Despite the title, Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" is far more about 18th century composer Antonio Salieri than it is about his brilliant contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Metropolitan Opera House, one of the world's most prestigious opera companies, will audition Korean singers next month to perform on the New York stage, the New York International Opera Project said Monday.

With The Ocean at the End of the Lane , best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman has written his first adult novel in almost a decade.

When selecting its latest lineup of "pocket operas," shorter works that aren't normally presented together, the In Series opera company looked all the way back to 1918.

"Der Ring des Nibelungen," which begins with "Das Rheingold" on Monday, is part of the opera house's yearlong celebration of the bicentennial of the births of composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.

Maometto II by Rossini - Monday, June 10 JUST off the M40 in Buckinghamshire, the Wormsley Estate, home to Garsington Opera, looked lush and magnificent on a somewhat dull summer evening.

Luminato Presents: Evening Illuminations - Verdi vs. Wagner: A Love Story? A favorite TO festival, Luminato, is now in full swing! Tonight, as part of the festival's Evening Illuminations series, a special group discussion comparing and contrasting two composers: Verdi and Wagner.

Hye Jung Lee and Matthew Polenzani in San Francisco Opera's 'Les Contes d'Hoffmann' If you think you know Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann ," the opera with the beautiful "Barcarolle" and ridiculously stratospheric "Doll Song," you're in for a big surprise from San Francisco Opera.

England was gaga over Japan in the 1880s. As the long-isolated Asian empire opened to the outside world, Brits bought up kimonos, decorative screens, swords and statuary.

I've just been in Bamberg for a few days to listen to the finals of the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition .

Anne Sophie Duprels and Mungo Reoch in Madama Butterfly at Opera Holland Park: 'packs a punch so hard it leaves you winded'.

Cassie Worley as Mistress Ford, Danny Bowen as Sir John Falstaff, and Rebecca Frank as Mistress Page, star in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' the comedy kicking off the 20th anniversary season of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane.

When was the last time you attended an opera at which a baritone held a note and a tugboat horn harmonized with him? Or the heroine confronted her impending death with bats circling the stage above her? Such were among the rare operatic experiences available at Minnesota Opera's al fresco presentation of Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme" at St. Paul's ... (more)

We both attended U.S.C. and during those years featured in the production of "Carmen Jones" under the grueling baton of director-producer Otto Preminger.