Boston Lyric Opera's summer camp is teaching kids how to write their own opera. Over the course of a week, kids ages 8 through 11 years old create their own story, characters and song, then perform.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by If opera at its best aspires to a different world, then we need to cultivate an anti-elite approach to how it is created and performed. By Yuval ...

Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is coming to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater. This beloved holiday opera, first broadcast on NBC in 1951, tells the story of a disabled ...

For their third album, released in 1967, The Who had turned to more story and character-driven songs. The Who Sell Out was full of strange character studies by Pete Townshend, and intricate narratives ...

Cremaine Booker, center, plays the cello as Marsha Thompson, center right, the soprano in the opera “dwb” (driving while Black), practices at Texas Christian University. Courtesy Fort Worth Opera A ...

Opera stands at a critical juncture. Opera America’s 2023 Annual Field Report reveals an alarming reality: a 27 percent drop in attendance and a 20 percent decline in productivity compared to ...

A repeated phrase in the opera “dwb” (driving while Black) is, “You are not who they see.” Susan Kander, the composer of the opera, describes it as the mantra of a Black mother knowing her son, who is ...