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This week, the Washington National Opera finally gets to stage the D.C. premiere of the powerhouse production “Blue” at the Kennedy Center.

Dozens of high schoolers from across the country will be singing their hearts out at a national competition on the Suncoast this weekend.

As many as 40 high school singers from around the country will compete for a $10,000 first prize.

Five outstanding young artists have been selected to participate in Opera Columbus' annual Cooper- Bing Competition. The operatic vocal competition drew a record-breaking pool of 270 submissions, attracting talent from around the world to compete for the grand prize of $10,000.

Pittsburgh Opera will explore themes of race, violence and reconciliation in “Blue,” a contemporary opera inspired by current events and Black literature. “Blue” will be presented in five performances Saturday through May 1 in the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, at 980 Liberty Ave. in downtown Pittsburgh. The story

Esteban Meneses reviews Washington National Opera's world premiere recording of Blue by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson.

Despite the British embassys advice to leave Ukraine as soon as possible, several Britons have used social media to declare their determination to remain.

Houston Grand Opera has announced the nine finalists for this year’s Concert of Arias, the 34th Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, to be presented live from the Wortham Theater Center on January 21, 2022, at 7 p.m. CT.

Italy was about to enter lockdown as the second week of March 2020 opened for business, and lots of us had started washing our hands more frequently, but how many Washingtonians could have foreseen that many people in the area were about to work from home for more than a year? We took a look back at what Washingtonian published one year ago this week, and while we can laugh a tiny bit at how little we knew about what was ahead of us—public officials were warning us against wearing face ma...

Imagine you are a young singer, hoping for a career in opera and youve worked hard enough, been good enough and had enough stamina to reach the finalist stage of a competition where youll be performing before a theater jammed with opera lovers. But now instead of facing a live audience at your big moment, you are instead greeted with facsimiles of people: 2D cardboard cutouts filling the seats as you sing two arias in the course of the evening before a panel of judges. The rewards are still th...