On February 8, 2026, in Kebumen, Java, Indonesia, @abbasysunarto shared a video of their cat sleeping in an unusual position. In the video, the cat was so deeply asleep that it was difficult to wake ...

Opera has released its gaming-centric browser for Linux. With Opera GX, you get plenty of killer features for everyday use. Opera GX is free to install and use. I use a lot of web browsers. I ...

On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart weighed in on Timothée Chalamet’s viral takedown of ballet and opera. “As you are well aware, a terrible war has been raging for two weeks now,” ...

Bangkok-based opera director S.P. Somtow on why the genre's future may lie far from where it began: "Opera is going to survive no matter what anyone says." By Somtow Sucharitkul Composer and Conductor ...

Earlier this month, former English National Opera artistic director John Berry said opera in the UK needed to “attract good writers and tell better stories” that could tap into the zeitgeist, making ...

Italian opera legend Andrea Bocelli told People that he’s “surprised” his “fellow artist” Timothée Chalamet disparaged the value of opera and ballet during the “Variety & CNN Town Hall,” adding that ...

The Seattle Opera fired off a tongue-in-cheek rebuttal in response to Timothée Chalamet’s comments about the ballet and opera on Saturday. The company announced a discount code—the actor’s first ...

Ballet and opera companies around the world have called out Timothée Chalamet following the actor’s less-than-complimentary remarks about the art forms in a recent interview. In February, Chalamet and ...

Timothée Chalamet is catching criticism for his recent comments about ballet and opera, where the Oscar nominee said that "no one cares" about those art forms. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Mounting an opera has never been easy. Rudolf Bing, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972, once offered this observation: “To make successful opera in New York you do ‘Carmen ...

Back in November, Washington National Opera artistic director Francesca Zambello figured out exactly how she would blow up the opera company’s 44-year relationship with the John F. Kennedy Center for ...

If only European generals had possessed the tactical skills of Opera Orlando’s leaders, perhaps World War I might have been a shorter and less bloody affair. Opera Orlando waited until it felt the ...