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“Life of Pi” and Laura Linney on Broadway, Lise Davidsen at the Met Opera, SZA on tour: Here’s what we’re looking forward to this season.

Whether or not the score can fully bear the new meaning the Royal Opera's staging heaps upon it, it rings out gloriously

This spring, Gustavo Dudamel, the Philharmonic’s next music director, conducts the big deal symphony, the Met Opera stages Terence Blanchard’s “Champion”; and in Chicago, Riccardo Muti says farewell.

Mzansi opera singer Pretty Yende can't believe she has been invited to perform for royals.

With contemporary music dominating new productions and returning in some revivals, the Met is entering a new era of programming.

As she returns to Covent Garden, the singer talks music education in schools, Arts Council funding cuts, and the ‘genius maestro’ myth

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Its hard to find a more touching story of Chinas poverty alleviation efforts than the one that took place at Minning town in the northwestern area of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In recent years, this story was depicted in the wildly popular TV series, Minning Town, and now it will amaze and touch the hearts of audiences once again as a Chinese opera.

Kate Soper’s “The Romance of the Rose,” which had its long-delayed premiere at Long Beach Opera, showcases her signature quick-shifting eclecticism.

The second part of the company’s Ring cycle is the first of the four operas, and its sumptuous singing atones for last year’s drab Valkyrie