San Francisco Opera takes a breather from its regimen of presenting full-fledged and lavish operatic productions to let Music Director Eun Sun Kim shine a solo spotlight on her instrumentalists in ...

"Porgy and Bess" — an opera that spotlights Black voices and helped define the Houston Grand Opera's legacy — returns to the ...

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 ...

Anton Rubinstein’s 1871 opera, “Demon,” is a tried-and-true 19th-century plot with a religious twist: A fallen angel seeks redemption through a woman’s love. In Russia, it was the most popular opera ...

The season opens with Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème" from Jan. 23-26, followed by Georges Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" from ...

It has been called a perfect opera: Certainly it is an extraordinarily popular one. Put on Georges Bizet's "Carmen" (1875) for a friend who claims to know nothing about classical music and watch for ...

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 ...

Do you sing in the shower like the rest of us? Meet Josie and Junehan, two real life opera singers who invited us to catch the rehearsal, so we invited them to answer some of your most pressing opera ...