Music can be many things, including a weapon. Among the songs that law enforcement and militaries have played, at deafening volume, to break the spirits of adversaries over the years are “Paranoid,” ...

This weekend, multi-Grammy award winner and 2018 Olivier Award recipient Joyce DiDonato brought her theatrical and colorfully imaginative opera to Bing Concert Hall. A mezzo-soprano singer, DiDonato ...

Even as venue closures and a dwindling audience base raise serious concerns about the survival of Cantonese opera, a new generation of artists, educators and aficionados are trying to revitalize it by ...

Our Pick of the Upcoming Season 2026 is a year of change at the top of the London opera scene. The Royal Opera’s new Music ...

In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around 1820. When he ...

This new opera assembles a compassionate, haunting portrait of the middle class that emerged from World War II and considers what they leave behind. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Amsterdam Theaters ...

First-ever collaboration of two student music groups shows the importance of arts to the Duke student experience The first-ever collaboration of Duke Opera with the Duke Wind Symphony came with many ...

When Contralto Margarete Klose sang in Jenufa at Berlin’s Municipal Opera, she performed excellently. But along with the applause came a shrill of whistles and a thicket of catcalls. It had just been ...

The Verdi Chorus' 40th Anniversary season continues with its landmark Fall 2023 Concert 40! for two performances only at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica on November 18 and 19. Led by ...

I'm a big fan of the stuff. The problem is, it seems to be pretty damn rare, and I crave <I>more</I>.<BR><BR>I'll throw out some examples:<BR><BR>Navras - Off the Matrix Revolutions ...

People don’t refer to Nashville as the Protestant Vatican for nothing. After all, this is an extremely religious place, the home of several seminaries, numerous Christian music companies, hundreds of ...