At a rehearsal last month for the opera The Central Park Five, singers wearing soft athletic pants and baseball caps warmed up by a piano. The opera is based on a real-life tragedy, about a group of ...

"West Side Story" is a tale that is operatic, through and through, thanks in part to its poignant "Romeo & Juliet" origins, the incredible songs and staging, and a love story at its center that is ...

Detroit Opera is presenting "The Central Park Five," an opera about the wrongful conviction of five teenagers. The opera includes Donald Trump as a character, highlighting his early political ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The novel, Swimming in the Dark, was one of NPR’s favorite reads in 2020. Now, the debut book from author Tomasz Jedrowski is being adapted into a two-act ...

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...

At the end of June, opera music will echo through the Colorado Foothills as Central City Opera starts its 2025 Festival. Central City Opera was founded in 1932, making it the fifth oldest professional ...

Opera Story Time is a community engagement event put on by the Tulsa Opera. Last year the opera company reached over 40,000 people outside the theater through these types of programs. “We just want to ...

Major artists have created works for Masquerade, an immersive revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, which begins previews this week at a renovated art-supply store near Central Park ...

Opera House Theatre Company has announced its highly anticipated 41st Season at Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, featuring a dynamic lineup of Broadway favorites, American classics, and ...

OperaDelaware, America’s 11th oldest opera company with over 75 years of artistic legacy in the First State, is honored to present the world premiere of "Fearless'' – a bold new opera that tells the ...

“When I was a kid, hearing the Jets hurl all that negativity toward Latinos, I learned a lot of slurs. It had a big impact on me,” soprano Gabriella Reyes tells Observer about seeing the movie for the ...