Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato will return to Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing for her popular series of master classes for young professional opera singers from Sunday, April 19 through Tuesday, ...

The very first time mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe ever sang in an opera, she was a 17-year-old college freshman at Potsdam State University in New York. The opera was Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni ...

Did you know that, in 1961, years before the passing of the Civil Rights Act, President John F. Kennedy appointed a Black woman from Madison, North Carolina to the National Music Committee? Many ...

Ms. DiDonato's passionate belief, and the driving force behind EDEN, is that a collective return to our "best selves" is needed to not only address our current climate crisis, but the crisis of heart, ...

With all due respect to Verdi and Puccini, the three founders of New Wave Opera company are feeling a little burned out on storylines about damsels in distress, with or without tuberculosis. So the ...

Regina Sarfaty-Rickless shares a remarkable story of her early days at the Santa Fe Opera. Performing in the very first opera, working with Igor Stravinsky and John Crosby – Regina Sarfaty-Rickless ...

For its 61st season, San Diego Opera announced today a three-show season that will feel both familiar and inviting to audiences: Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and ...

NEW YORK — For Elina Garanca, there’s a clue nestled in the score of Camille Saint-Saens’ opera “Samson et Dalila” that suggests the pagan beauty has genuine feelings for the hero she has vowed to ...

San Diego Opera set to close season with a vibrant ‘Carmen’ ...