Page 171 - Opera News Today

The program focuses on "The Sacred Harp," an influential American shape-note masterpiece that was developed from early rural English church music.

In 1987, “Nixon in China” meditated on what was then recent history, depicting Kissinger as a smooth diplomat with a brutal side.

Met officials were forced to bring down the curtain halfway through the opera as protesters unfurled banners that read “No Opera On A Dead Planet.” The performance later resumed.

Saturdays concert is a benefit in honor of Tulsa Operas 75th anniversary, which held its first performance — a modern-dress staging of Verdis "La Traviata" — on Dec. 4, 1948.

The Russian maestro, who heads the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, will also control the Bolshoi in Moscow, replacing Vladimir Urin, who spoke out against the Ukraine war.

'The Gilded Age' star Morgan Spector revealed he wants mother-in-law Maria Ewing's photo back on the Metropolitan Opera's wall at special HBO/Met event.

Hundreds of superb young singers have graduated from the New Zealand Opera School on to the world’s opera stages. This remarkable school, based in Whanganui,...

A revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” was notable for the arrival of Christian Gerhaher. But with an abrupt protest, the performance took a turn.

First United Methodist Church provided its church sanctuary as a gift to the community by hosting the Jacksonville State University Civic Chorale.

The College of Arts + Architecture had nine students compete in the recent Musical Theatre Student Auditions for the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Signing