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 ...

Opera flourishes: in spite of all the financial cutbacks, the UK’s opera companies are managing to create new work and ...

Opera Naples' upcoming season is shaping up to be a big one. The opera company plans four fully staged operas for the first time since the pandemic — and those operas are some of the best-known, ...

The 2025 mainstage attraction is a new production of one of the most popular operas of all time: Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece La Traviata. BOF will bring it to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on ...

Peter Kálmán, Alexey Zhilikhovsky and Aigul Akhmetshina as Bartolo, Figaro and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera The closure of opera houses caused by the COVID-19 ...

What is the best way to start 2025? It is to attend a concert featuring the music from one of the most popular operas in the world and to escape the cold weather by immersing in the warmth and passion ...

Workers at La Fenice say Beatrice Venezi, a favorite of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy, lacks the experience to be the storied company’s music director. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from ...