A performance by Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko in the Romania city of Cluj-Napoca has been cancelled due to a campaign by the Embassy of Ukraine and Romanian activists. Source: Ukrainian Ministry ...

Critic Lloyd Schwartz tells a story about Lezhneva, a Russian singer he "discovered" a few months ago — without realizing he already owned a 2015 recording of her rendition of Handel's early oratorio.

Opera reimagining Shakespearean play in Gilded Age New York is beautiful and mostly well-cast, but not much more ...

A concert commemorating the 90th birth anniversary of Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), one of the greatest singers of the 20th ...

Police in Georgia have arrested five people after clashes with anti-government protesters trying to storm the presidential palace in the capital, Tbilisi. Security forces used water cannons and pepper ...

Georgian prosecutors on Monday charged five opposition leadership figures with attempting to overthrow the government, after protests on Saturday culminated in clashes between police and demonstrators ...

Assisted by a group of Philharmonic-Symphony musicians, directed at intervals by Mr. Paul Stassevitch, Mr. Siloti played the Tschaikowski B-flat minor concerto, the Beethoven “Emperor” concerto, and ...

Last Thursday, I went to see the opera Tosca at the Astra Theatre in Gozo. Opera performances are now a permanent feature of the theatre calendar in Gozo, and their high standard draws the ...

DOC NYC announces the full 2025 lineup with 116 feature documentaries, 113 shorts, and new Selects Encore section ahead of ...

Helping to build the careers of superb young singers is what Wigmore Hall has done for decades: I still remember Olaf Bär’s ...

Verdi’s Requiem is short by operatic standards. At roughly 90 minutes, it trails “Aïda” by 80 minutes, “Rigoletto” by 60 and “La Traviata” by 40 — not counting intermissions — but hardly lacks for ...