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The Yale Opera will perform “The Rake’s Progress,” returning to the Shubert Theatre after four years without appearing on its mainstage.

The story illuminates the relationship between Auden and Kallman and the complexities that for each of us come with being human, with ambition and desire.

World-renowned vocalist Renée Fleming performed a recital, taught a masterclass and led a public “Music and Mind” forum with Yale professors Laurie Santos and AZA Allsop last weekend at Yale.

Singers and composers performed original pieces at downtown music venue Firehouse 12 on Monday.

Playwrights Horizons and MCC Theater will present the world premiere of John J. Caswell, Jr.'s Wet Brain, directed by Dustin Wills. A terrifyingly inventive look at addiction's ability to transform one's existence and relationships, Wet Brain offers an American family drama that is not only freed from realism, but also, perhaps unmoored from Earth itself.

Rune Bergmann served as a guest conductor with PMF for two concerts in its 2022 season. The permanent position had been vacant for three years.

Houston Grand Opera has announced the nine finalists for this year’s Concert of Arias, the 34th Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, to be presented live from the Wortham Theater Center on January 21, 2022, at 7 p.m. CT.

She performed selections from a new song cycle, entitled "Winter Morning Walks," composed by Maria Schneider.

Yale Opera singers work online with industry giants April 6, 2021 Yale Opera singers talk via Zoom with soprano Renée Fleming  When Yale Opera Director Gerald Martin Moore began his work at the School of Music six months into the pandemic, he faced as tough a predicament as a new faculty member could. “We knew we couldn’t sing together,” he said. That, on its face, posed a question: What then, could vocalists do? During the fall semester, Yale Opera singers worked on techn...