Opera

Never mere entertainment, Giuseppe Verdi's operas evoke the depths of human feelings.

An opera singer who realized her conservative values were incompatible with a career in the liberal arts found ...

A German-born opera singer is spreading his love for classical music with the masses by bursting into song ...

Commentary A saloon in an 1850s California gold mining town called Cloudy sounds like a great setting for ...

Commentary From October through December, department stores, television, merchandise, and popular tunes remind us that “it’s the most ...

Commentary You don’t have to be an opera lover to know of “Carmen.” Written by Georges Bizet, this ...

Commentary When you think of “Frankenstein,” does opera come to mind? Mary Shelley’s classic novel about a scientist ...

Commentary Mahatma Gandhi is quoted as saying, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” The ...

Melbourne Opera's artistic director has called on the board of Australia's national opera company to explain why it ...

Commentary Opera is a very Western art form. Born in Italy in the 1500s, it would flourish in ...

If there is a world’s second-most beautiful piece of music, then which is the first, and who said ...

Attending a live performance of the opera is a feast for all the senses, as you take in ...

Opera director Sir Graham Vick has died following “complications arising from COVID-19,” the Birmingham Opera Company has announced. ...

VERONA, Italy—The Verona Arena amphitheater in northern Italy has returned to staging full operas for the first time ...

Opera has become a joke in modern pop culture. From commercials to movies, it’s always considered funny to ...

NEW YORK—There is perhaps nothing more painful than the forced separation of two people who are truly in ...

Imagine opening night. You’re sitting on a plush red chair and looking out at a gilded stage in a ...

CALGARY, Alberta—Long ago, singers in China and Europe sang with especially pure and beautiful operatic tones thanks to ...

Puccini's first opera, if it is known at all, is known best as the two-act “Le Villi.” But, in ...

For the past 23 years, opera—and avocados—have thrived on Rick and Joan Kennaway’s “Operacado” orchard at Glenbervie, Whangarei, ...

Leonardo Vinci—not to be confused with the iconic painter and inventor—is one of the Italian composers from the ...

Carolyn Sproule was 4 years old when she saw “The Sound of Music” and promptly decided she was ...

One day, while walking down the corridor of the seminary where he was studying to become a priest, ...

Richard Tucker began his career at the Metropolitan Opera in 1945, before it even came to its Lincoln ...

Each year, Opera Saratoga packs up one production into one van and brings it directly to thousands of ...

NEW YORK—Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" is a Christmas nativity story. It is a one-act ...

As soon as China’s controversial opera “Lake Honghu” arrived in Australia, it met with protesters from the local ...