Jolie stars as world-famous opera star Maria Callas in director Pablo Larrain's biopic, which was acquired by Netflix and makes its world premiere at Venice: "This movie wouldn't exist without ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by If opera at its best aspires to a different world, then we need to cultivate an anti-elite approach to how it is created and performed. By Yuval ...

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 ...

Director Melanie Helton’s key to MSU Opera Theatre's production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is bold color. As she has studied the opera, Helton said she feels the opera’s themes of good and evil, ...

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something really novel in the genre. “Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped ...

As he prepares to start his 43rd year as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi said he is working toward the same goals now that he had at the start of his long tenure. “My goal is ...

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 ...

The Houston Symphony will kick off its season this weekend with a scorcher: "Valčuha Conducts Stravinsky's Firebird." While Stravinksy's piece might be the headliner, it is guest soprano Angel Blue ...

“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, ...