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Company's outdoor performances will return, as well as Puccini’s 'La Bohème' which will be performed in 2025.

A curious L.A. Opera double bill pairs Viennese composer Alexander Zemlinsky's 'The Dwarf' with the Black American composer William Grant Still's 'Highway 1, USA.'

"We're all trying to kind of find some sound that links us together," celebrated New Zealand musician Neil Finn tells Culture 101 in an upcoming interview.

Auckland Choral’s annual performance of Handel’s Messiah is always launched with a warm introduction from Uwe Grodd. On Monday night, along with high-flown...

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,...

Settling The Score 2023 is a big year for New Zealand composers. It might be the first time we've seen four local compositions in the top thirty, it is certainly the first time homegrown works have taken first and second place.

The company's latest staging of Wagner's opera, the mythical tale of the Swan Knight, sharply directed and expertly sung, gets a modern update as it explores themes of war, totalitarianism, and how the effects of lies and deceit can ravage a country leaning toward fascism.

The company's latest staging of Wagner's opera, the mythical tale of the Swan Knight, sharply directed and expertly sung, gets a modern update as it explores themes of war, totalitarianism, and how the effects of lies and deceit can ravage a country leaning toward fascism.

From Alonzo King LINES Ballet to free SF Music Day to a musical satire about Disney princesses, there is a lot to see and hear in the Bay Area.

In November, the Sydney Symphony’s Chief Conductor Simone Young will commence a four-year project to present Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle at the Sydney Opera House. Here she explains why these performances will be an unmissable musical experience.