Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists. Two new operas focus on the Black female experience When Emmy-nominated composer ...

SAN ANTONIO — A day can make all the difference. Telling a story set in a single day goes back to the ancient Greek plays and, notably, James Joyce's novel “Ulysses.” Two short operas presented Sunday ...

Love, obsession, death and a lot of great music: All those staples of opera are on display in “Pagliacci,” which opened Seattle Opera’s 2024-25 season Saturday and runs through Aug. 17. “Pagliacci” ...

The College of Charleston Opera and the Charleston Symphony will present Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Il Re by Umberto Giordano, two exciting short operas, on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.

Each summer, Wagner’s famous opera works are performed in a theatre designed by the composer himself. His work foreshadowed ...

Performers in this year's New Works Collective (with librettist Jarrod Lee, center, with mic) take part in two or three of the world premieres debuting Feb. 6. There are Kleenex boxes on some of the ...

Picture this: You’re in your car, with your family, in an underground parking garage. On a makeshift stage, the performer and poet avery r. young, now Chicago’s poet laureate, is intoning and singing.

When Emmy-nominated composer Levi Taylor saw Terence Blanchard's opera Champion (2013), it awakened something in him. "I was like, 'wow, wait, there's somebody who looks like me who's writing diverse ...