In a new opera, a life in music and a struggle with memory loss intertwine
Composer Laura Kaminsky's intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old ...
A rousing chorus and the mighty Kotzschmar make the case for opera
The organ accompanied the ChoralArt Masterworks chorus in performing some of opera's greatest hits. It made for a satisfying, ...
Opinion
How to Save Opera in America? Make It New Again.
After 18 years running the Met, and a lifetime of experience in classical music and opera, it’s clear to me that the solution to sustaining opera is through artistic reinvention, both with new operas ...
COMPETITION: Opera UCT Stages Britten’s Chilling Masterpiece The Turn of the Screw at the Baxter
Opera lovers are in for a spine-tingling treat this November as Opera UCT presents Benjamin Britten’s operatic thriller The ...
Review: Powerful ‘Blue’ by Lyric Opera charts the agony of Black parenting
In this opera, composed by Jeanine Tesori with a libretto by Tazewell Thompson, you never see the event at the heart of the ...
Christopher Hahn leads 'a vital part of the community' at the Pittsburgh Opera (Personalities of Pittsburgh)
For nearly 17 years, Christopher Hahn has served as general director of the Pittsburgh Opera, one of several arts ...
In 'Blue,' Lyric Opera's small, powerful cast tells painful story of a teen's death at police hands
A five-year-old opera, “Blue,” tackles this tragedy head-on with a simple yet weighty story about a Black couple in Harlem ...
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University Opera Theatre stages ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’
Now the opera is coming to the area where the idea was conceived, as the University of Minnesota’s University Opera ...