Henry Purcell’s Baroque tragedy opens Opera Lafayette’s season under new artistic director Patrick Dupre Quigley.
He can sing the blues and riff a jazz tune, but Saturday night Kenneth Gayle is singing grand opera, and the tenor has chosen some of the biggest and most loved arias from the repertoire. Puccini’s ...
Soprano Angela Meade will sing the title role in Bellin's "Norma" on Friday night and Sunday afternoon at Palm Beach Opera. The life of an opera singer is often a perilous one because it relies on ...
The New Orleans Opera Association will close out its 75th mainstage season with what General and Artistic Director Robert Lyall calls “a hit parade of famous opera selections,” Friday evening and ...
Sierra was 27, an infant by opera standards, when she sang her first Gilda at the Met. Already, she was capable of beautiful ...
Palm Beach Opera continued its 62 nd mainstage season on Friday with a performance of “The Tales of Hoffmann,” by Jacques Offenbach, at the Kravis Center. Before the performance began, there was an ...
Almost every opera lover agrees, Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” is among the finest. Opera librettist E.T.A. Hoffmann called it “the opera of all operas”. Michigan State University Opera Theater will be ...
When will Maria Callas record a complete Carmen? That is the intriguing question that has been raised by Angel’s release of a record of French opera arias sung by Callas. Two of the arias are from ...
George Frideric Handel was the baroque era's master of the earworm. Take as evidence Minnesota Opera's new production of his opera, "Rinaldo." It's fairly bursting with lovely laments of love and ...