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Legendary tenor Andrea Bocelli announced today his December 2019 tour, kicking off in San Francisco, California, with additional stops in Las Vegas, San Diego, San Antonio, Houston, Columbus, Washington, D.

This past weekend at the Ordway Center, MN Opera unveiled their World Premiere The Fix in tribute to the All-American sport and spirt of baseball.

Can opera be a medium for social commentary and change? I've been thinking about this lately--or, more accurately, yet again--since attending a preview of the new Jeanne Tesori-Tazewell Thompson opera, BLUE, which was part of the Guggenheim Museum's fascinating Works & Process series.

Mozart's opera of ancient Rome, La Clemenza di Tito, returns to the Met starring Matthew Polenzani in the title role of the Roman emperor Tito, with Elza van den Heever as the vengeful Vitellia, who plots his assassination.

17 Skylight artists.

Iulia Isaev will sing the title role in tonight's performance of Puccini's Tosca, replacing Jennifer Rowley, who is ill.

On Friday April 5, 2019, Sarasota Opera will present a concert and dinner in commemoration of their 60th season of bringing world-class opera to Florida's Gulf Coast.

Kent State University Opera presents Aaron Copland's quintessentially American Opera 'The Tender Land' on Fri.

Gregory Kunde will sing Samson in the March 16, 19, and 23 performances of Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, replacing Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is ill.

Asia Society hosts a special preview and conversation around the new chamber opera BOUND, inspired by the news headline: “Diane Tran, Honor Student at Texas High School, Jailed for Missing School.

The Metropolitan Opera Guild, a premier arts education organization, today launched the first of its series of Online Learning courses, Libretti and Librettists, exploring the connection between words and music across the operatic art form.

Mezzo soprano Frederica von Stade starred in the San Diego Opera's staging of Three Decembers.

After an international search, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is proud to announce the three new singers and one new pianists for the 2019 20 HGO Studio.

Twenty-one young opera singers who have won regional auditions around the United States will compete in the semifinal round of the country's leading vocal competition, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, on Sunday, March 24.

This month, GRAMMY Award winners Apollo's Fire and Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell will embark on a tour of Florida and Wisconsin with their acclaimed program Virtuoso Bach & Vivaldi, March 26–30, 2019.

Gone are the days when the opera is treated like an old-world passion and a cultural event where people are required to dress to the nines.

Long Beach Opera (LBO) premieres Philip Glass' In the Penal Colony in collaboration with California Repertory Company (CalRep) April 25 (sold out), 26, 27 (sold out), at 7:30 PM; April 28 (sold out), at 2:30 PM; May 2, 3, 4, at 7:30 PM; and May 5 (sold out), at 2:30PM at the CSULB Studio Theater, 12

National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $27 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment's first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019.

Winter Opera has opened a sumptuous production of Norma, Vincenzo Bellini's bel canto masterpiece from 1831.

If Robert Lepage's production of Wagner's Ring Cycle (formally, DER RING DAS NIBELUNGEN) had worked as smoothly when it opened in 2010 as it did at this season's marvelous premiere of its prologue, DAS RHEINGOLD, on Saturday afternoon, there probably still would have been complaints--not about its f

Jean-François Lapointe will sing the Marquis de la Force in all upcoming performances of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, replacing Dwayne Croft.

The Crypt Sessions, which take place in the stone chamber beneath the Church of the Intercession on West 155th Street in Manhattan, might conjure up visions of horror, though it bears no relation to HBO's long-running anthology, “Tales from the Crypt.

Utah Opera Artistic Director Christopher McBeth has announced the programming, initial casting, and creative teams for the company's 2019-20 season, which comprises four opera productions at the newly renovated Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre.

Wagner's visionary initial installment of the Ring Cycle depicts the original sin of the theft of the sacred golden treasure, the vanity of the gods, the greed of the Nibelungen, the fratricide of the giants, and the building of Valhalla.

Manhattan-based soprano by way of Westchester County, Victoria Miningham, is a professional opera singer and entrepreneur with the ambition to share her passion of classical music with her peers.