One of the many challenges facing the musicians of an unstaged Wagner performance is the balance, as the vast orchestra can ...

If you see one opera this season, let it be WNO's "Macbeth," Verdi's journey into the dark heart of the Scottish play.

San Francisco Opera Center Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson and General Manager Markus Beam has announced the 11 ...

January will mark the 50th anniversary of beloved tenor Richard Tucker ’s sudden death at the age of 61. The foundation created soon after his passing has become one of the most important ...

Mena skillfully managed Boléro ’s prolonged crescendo, although the snare drum was inaudible in early variations. Of ...

While many people may see opera as an old-fashioned art form, it still thrives in Germany. The country boasts dozens of ...

Giacomo Puccini, the composer of “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly,” has been called the world’s most popular ...

Like La traviata, which opened the Dallas Opera season — and numerous other operatic hits — Pelléas ends with a woman’s death ...

The Riverside Opera Company will present “A Night at the Opera” Saturday, Nov. 9. from 8 to 10 p.m. at St. Teresa’s R.C. Church in Castleton Corners. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The concert, that begins ...

The Wagner concert was titled “Gods and Mortals,” an oddity since Wagner’s gods perish and are thus quite mortal. The program ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Was it the music of Rossini, Puccini or Bellini that grabbed the attention of “Italian Idol” judges?