Opera (OPRA) and Spotify (SPOT) have partnered to make it easier for users to listen to music, podcasts, and audiobooks while browsing on their computers. Spotify becomes the default streaming service ...

Was it the live music I missed most, or the intermissions — with all those delightful exchanges about the performers, the music, the weather, the traffic, or the seats? At last now — after the awful ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by During a break at the Royal Opera House, Aigul Akhmetshina discussed her action-packed career, “Carmen” and her mission to spread her love of opera.

Opera GX, a browser designed for PC gamers, has launched a unique new feature - adaptive background music – to bring the immersive sound experience of gaming to web browsing. Opera GX was launched in ...

Los Angeles is not, historically, an opera city. Only in 1986 did it finally found a resident company, Music Center Opera, now Los Angeles Opera. Nor do we boast an actual opera house. The Dorothy ...

With her emotion-evoking operatic range and soprano heights, Dominican opera singer Zuly Inirio is challenging whose voice is embodied and heard throughout the genre. She first saw an opera — “La ...

Welcome to the CU Boulder New Opera Workshop (CU NOW) at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Founded in 2010 by Leigh Holman, director of the Eklund Opera Program, CU NOW is the first ...

Yuval Sharon will leave the financially strained Detroit Opera after this season. In March, he brings his unorthodox vision ...

Until recently, the music of Morgiane only existed in a single handwritten manuscript. Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France, completed the nearly 550-page score in 1887. He ...

In her incisive book “Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement,” the musicologist Naomi André frames black opera—opera that foregrounds black experiences, voices, and bodies—as a kind of shadow culture ...

The Kennedy Center premieres a new ending for one of the world's most famous operas on Saturday in Washington, D.C. The opera is Turandot, and its ending has always been, shall we say, problematic.

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com When San Francisco Opera opens its 2025-26 season on Sept. 5 with ...