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With a strong cast including Bradley Daley, Paul Carey Jones’s Wotan and Julieth Lozano’s delightful Woodbird, any weaknesses in the staging were more than compensated for

George Sterne has sung with the L.A. Opera since the 1980s. He’s taken the spotlight and taken pratfalls. In June, he'll be taking his final bow.

Rich Miller received a life-saving liver transplant at New York-Presbyterian Weill...

DALLAS (AP) -- Fabio Luisi will conduct a Ring Cycle in concert with the Dallas Symphony in October 2024. Luisi, who became music director for the 2020-21

The San Diego Symphony’s Music Director and Conductor Rafael Payare took up the notoriously difficult French horn at the age of 13. During an hour-long Zoom interview while he was in Montreal, I asked how he had managed to become a soloist less than six months later! “I have to admit it was a little bit fast,” he said. Not the haughty egotistical answer I might have gotten from film conductor-stereotypes. His local youth orchestra, a part of Venezuela’s extensive El Sistema program, need...

On March 11th 2020 Mint Theater Company completed casting for their next production, the long delayed American premiere of Chains by Elizabeth Baker, scheduled to open that May.  

It's not often done because it's the Everest for symphonies performing operas: It's 15 hours long.

DALLAS (AP) — Fabio Luisi will conduct a Ring Cycle in concert with the Dallas Symphony in October 2024.

Talking with opera artistic director John Hoomes

Most were far too long and there was always something to distract me. The mistake I was making was in that word 'listening'. A Wagner opera has to be seen as well as heard. It must be allowed to consume all one's emotions and one needs to be sitting in a theatre with nothing to