Opera Orlando general director Gabriel Preisser has been waiting a decade to introduce Central Florida to ‘instant classic’ ...

Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is retiring from the stage after a last performance as Maria in the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera, and looking ahead to directing and mentoring.

Graves, who gave her last performance on Saturday at the Met, talks about “Carmen,” the doctor who told her she would never ...

A three-time Academy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner, Fiennes made his opera directing debut Monday at the Paris ...

The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Latonia Moore is well known for bringing emotionally complex and deeply nuanced women to life on stage – a skill that has earned the three-time Grammy-winning operatic soprano ...

The Metropolitan Opera in New York presented the first excerpt from the opera The Mothers of Kherson on Monday 2 June. The production tells the story of deported children and their mothers who set out ...

The production team of Bizet’s “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera demanded their names be removed from programs due to a ...

In 2021, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) launched a five-year initiative, “As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage”, spotlighting Black composers and featuring five operas ...

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, one of the world’s preeminent artist-development programs, has revealed that applications are now open for its 2026/27 ...

Tazewell Thompson remembers the first time he heard a spiritual. Before becoming a recognized writer and operatic director, Thompson grew up in a convent in New York after being separated from his ...

One opera is good. Three are better. That's what audiences will experience when Houston Grand Opera presents the full trilogy of Giacomo Puccini's "Il Trittico," running Thursday through Nov. 14 at ...