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Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for "Orlando," an opera based on a Virginia Woolf novel about a gender-switching poet whose adventures span more than three centuries.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for "Orlando," an opera based on

The Metropolitan Opera returned with its first work by a Black composer, the repertory slowly got richer, and other highlights of the year.

Here are some upcoming holiday events:

Opera Rara have done a fine job giving this neglected opera a chance at reappraisal. Sadly for Leoncavallo it hasn't got better with age

Holiday Extravaganza The Winter Opera's 15th season begins with our first annual Holiday Extravaganza on December 4. This holiday celebration welcomes in the festive winter season with holiday classics and opera favorites, including selections from The Nutcracker and Act II of La Bohème, from baritone Michael Nansel and soprano Megan Barrera. A local children’s chorus adds angelic voices to the sounds of the season and Ballet 314 will take the stage for a memorable ballet perfor...

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service. But both also saw their legacies tarnished by their actions in the long, bloody

Review: Platée, directed by Neil Armfiled, Pinchgut Opera French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Pl

Review: Platée, directed by Neil Armfiled, Pinchgut Opera French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Pl

Sondra Radvanovsky and Brian Jagde sing thrillingly, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a superb performance of Puccini’s classic.