The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to ...

Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is retiring from the stage after a last performance as Maria in the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera, and looking ahead to directing and mentoring.

Graves, who gave her last performance on Saturday at the Met, talks about “Carmen,” the doctor who told her she would never ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Latonia Moore is well known for bringing emotionally complex and deeply nuanced women to life on stage – a skill that has earned the three-time Grammy-winning operatic soprano ...

The production team of Bizet’s “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera demanded their names be removed from programs due to a ...

The production team behind Bizet’s "Carmen" at the Metropolitan Opera has demanded their names be stripped from programmes.

In 2021, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) launched a five-year initiative, “As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage”, spotlighting Black composers and featuring five operas ...

The Metropolitan Opera in New York presented the first excerpt from the opera The Mothers of Kherson on Monday 2 June. The production tells the story of deported children and their mothers who set out ...

Tazewell Thompson remembers the first time he heard a spiritual. Before becoming a recognized writer and operatic director, Thompson grew up in a convent in New York after being separated from his ...

Amarillo is set for an evening of passion and drama as the Amarillo Opera presents Georges Bizet’s iconic "Carmen" on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, one of the world’s preeminent artist-development programs, has revealed that applications are now open for its 2026/27 ...