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All new operas start somewhere, and the journey to Houston Grand Opera's latest commission from composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Royce Vavrek, The House without a Christmas Tree, started nearly 40 years ago in rural Indiana.

Lawrence Edelson, Artistic and General Director of Opera Saratoga, announced today the appointment of two new members of the organization's senior staff: Jonathan Blalock will join the company as Development and Patron Services Manager, effective December 4, 2017; and Charla Jeanne Lawson will becom

A new work by Arizona State University School of Music Professor of Practice Daniel Bernard Roumain is re-shaping what the world thought Opera could be.

Houston Grand Opera's annual white-tie fundraiser, this year chaired by Drs.

Brooklyn Opera Works presents their first annual Liederabend: Art Song Recital on December 19, 2017 at 7:30pm at BMS Playhouse, 126 St.

New York-based composer Gerald Cohen (www.

The San Francisco Opera is currently staging the world premiere of Girls of the Golden West, the newest opera by American composer John Adams.

The Aviva Players and Algonquin Theater Productions in association with Diodati Productions, Original Cast Records and The New York Association present Lady of the Castle, a ghostly post-Holocaust chamber opera based on a true story and an Israeli play by Lea Goldberg with music and lyrics by Mira J

The Aviva Players and Algonquin Theater Productions in association with Diodati Productions, Original Cast Records and The New York Association present Lady of the Castle, a ghostly post-Holocaust chamber opera based on a true story and an Israeli play by Lea Goldberg with music and lyrics by Mira J

Arizona Opera's electrifying premiere of the new American opera Riders of the Purple Sage will be released for broadcast nationally on November 25, 2017.

On November 21, San Francisco Opera opened the world premiere of Girls of the Golden West, the newest opera by American composer John Adams.

Sir Richard Eyre's staging of Le Nozze di Figaro, with the action of Mozart's masterpiece relocated to 1930s Seville, returns to the Met on December 6 for 11 performances through to January 19, conducted by Harry Bicket.

The Metropolitan Opera's performances of Verdi's Requiem, beginning this Today, November 24, will be dedicated to the memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

Music Director Emeritus James Levine will conduct four performances of Verdi's Requiem, the first Met performances of Verdi's masterpiece since 2008.

Advance listings have been announced for Canadian Opera Company events in March 2018.

The Metropolitan Opera's performances of Verdi's Requiem, beginning this Friday, November 24, will be dedicated to the memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

According to Opera News, Siberian Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has died at age 55, following a battle with brain cancer.

The finest orchestra, finest opera chorus, and some of the finest soloists, what more could you want?

Fresh from a rapturously received account of Berlioz's La damnation de Faust with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Charles Dutoit, Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham reprises her 'vivacious and creamy-voiced' (New York Times) star turn as the wealthy widow Hanna Glawari

Anyone arriving at the San Francisco Opera expecting that the new John Adams-Peter Sellars collaboration, GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST, will sound like any of their previous projects--THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER, DR.

Austin Opera continues its tradition of masterfully recreating classic operas with Bizet's CARMEN currently playing at The Long Center.

Julie Taymor's production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, with performances from November 25 to December 9, is the first of two holiday presentations at the Met this season.

This November, two Vancouver companies will welcome audiences to opera's most famous masked ball.

Des Moines Metro Opera opens its 46th Season on November 17 with As One, a one-act chamber opera for two voices and string quartet with music by Laura Kaminsky and libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed.

By an Italian composer, sung in Italian and set in Paris! They're a restless lot at Co-Opera; they're on the move again, this time taking a production of Puccini's gorgeous La Boheme to three venues in and around Adelaide, with six performances, and three casts and an orchestra of musicians from t