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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

The Kennedy Center premieres a new ending for one of the world's most famous operas on Saturday in Washington, D.C. The opera is Turandot, and its ending has always been, shall we say, problematic.

On the banks of the Nile sits the Ethiopian princess Aida. Enslaved by the Pharaoh, she longs in song for home and for her captor’s military commander, with whom she has fallen in love. Thus begins ...

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 ...

OPERA America has revealed the winners of the 2023 Awards for Digital Excellence in Opera. The awards recognize the best work created for digital platforms by individual producers and organizations in ...

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 ...