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Laufey, Lady Gaga, & More Win 2026 GRAMMY Awards - Full List of Winners

by Josh Sharpe — February 1, 2026

It's music's biggest night! Laufey, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo, Billie Eilish, Bad Bunny, and more took home awards at The 68th Annual GRAMMYs.

Cynthia Erivo, Barbra Streisand, & More Nominated For 2026 GRAMMYS - Full List of Nominations

by Josh Sharpe — November 7, 2025

Barbra Streisand, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, and more have been nominated for 2026 GRAMMYS.

World Premiere Recording AN AMERICAN SOLDIER Announced by American Composers Orchestra

by Emmy Rice — May 24, 2025

The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) today released the world premiere recording of composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang’s moving and timely opera, An American Soldier, conducted by Carolyn Kuan, digitally via Platoon.

Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's AN AMERICAN SOLDIER Opera Recording Debuts in May

by Josh Sharpe — April 16, 2025

The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is set to release the world premiere recording of composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang’s moving and timely opera An American Soldier digitally via Platoon on Friday, May 23, 2025.

Review: Bard's LE PROPHETE Makes You Long for 'Brevity' of Wagner's Ring Cycle

by Richard Sasanow — August 5, 2024

Saying that Giacomo Meyerbeer’s LE PROPHETE is long is like calling the Grand Canyon a pothole: It doesn’t begin to describe the experience, though they both sometimes have a rocky landscape.

Review: AN AMERICAN SOLDIER Is a Horror Story of Brutality and Abuse

by Richard Sasanow — May 15, 2024

“Why did I enlist? Why did I go to war?” are but two of the questions that Private Danny Chen asks himself in the powerful docu-opera, AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang.

Cast and Creative Team Set for AN AMERICAN SOLDIER at Perelman Performing Arts Center

by Chloe Rabinowitz — February 29, 2024

The Perelman Performing Arts Center has revealed the complete and creative team for An American Soldier at the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.

Madison Opera Presents ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD

by A.A. Cristi — March 22, 2022

Madison Opera welcomes spring with Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld on Friday, April 29 at 8pm and Sunday, May 1 at 2:30pm in Overture Hall at the Overture Center for the Arts.

The McKittrick Hotel to Present New York Premiere of Heartbeat Opera's QUANDO

by Chloe Rabinowitz — March 9, 2022

The McKittrick Hotel (530 West 27th Street, NYC), home of Sleep No More, announced today that the New York premiere of Heartbeat Opera’s QUANDO, a short film and live performance mashup, will play a strictly limited engagement starting on April 7.

Opera Columbus Announces Cast For FELLOW TRAVELERS

by Stephi Wild — February 23, 2022

Opera Columbus takes on mid-20th-century American political intrigue, communism and the “lavender scare” in a work that the Chicago Tribune called “one of the most accomplished New American Operas.

Opera In The Heights to Presents IL TROVATORE

by Chloe Rabinowitz — November 5, 2021

Opera in the Heights, after a year and a half of alternative programming online and outdoors, has announced its return to fully-staged productions in its home venue, Lambert Hall.

BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR No. 40 at Home Computer Screens

by Maria Nockin — January 8, 2021

Los Angeles Opera’s Modulation, presented in collaboration with the Prototype Festival, adapts opera and theater to a new interactive format.

Atlanta Opera Spotlight Media Launches Next Month

by A.A. Cristi — November 19, 2020

Next month marks the launch of Atlanta Opera Spotlight Media.

The Kurt Weill Foundation Responds To Pandemic With The Lotte Lenya Competition Songbook

by Chloe Rabinowitz — October 27, 2020

The hardships COVID-19 have caused for songwriters and performers has prompted The Kurt Weill Foundation to provide financial support to participants chosen for the Lotte Lenya Competition Songbook, a new collection of sixteen contemporary theater songs by nineteen emerging writers.