Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bizet’s now hugely popular opera was not initially a success, but its scorching intensity seems more timely than ever. In this new ...

Opera Naples' upcoming season is shaping up to be a big one. The opera company plans four fully staged operas for the first time since the pandemic — and those operas are some of the best-known, ...

At the end of June, opera music will echo through the Colorado Foothills as Central City Opera starts its 2025 Festival. Central City Opera was founded in 1932, making it the fifth oldest professional ...

Carmen — and Carmen — blew into town in late September, with all her seductive cunning and mellifluous melodic charms. The tragic anti-heroine of the ever-popular opera by Georges Bizet, boldly ...

On January 2, 1958, a minor official at the Rome Opera House bore the thankless task of announcing bad news to the audience: Maria Callas had left the building. The legendary soprano, stricken by ...

“People’s reaction to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic. They either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don’t, they may learn to appreciate it, ...

HOW MUCH: $22-$105 general admission; $15 students/under 30; $5 to qualified low-income New Mexico residents through the Opera for All initiative; at operasouthwest.org, 505-724-4771 One of the most ...

Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know ...

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...