When an arts institution is faced with challenging times – as nearly every presenter has been, in the wake of the COVID pandemic and its slowly resolving aftermath – business sense dictates that the ...

International Contemporary Ensemble releases Afterword: An Opera in Two Acts by George Lewis out today on New Focus Recordings/TUNDRA. Lewis's first opera, Afterword premiered in 2015 at the Museum of ...

Now we know not to call “The Comet / Poppea” a mashup. That was the obvious expectation before Friday night’s premiere of Yuval Sharon’s latest operatic experiment with his company, the Industry.

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Crystal Manich started writing the opera “Time to Act” in 2018, shortly after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ...

The Detroit Opera puts a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 opera “Xerxes.” The Detroit Opera has put a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 “Xerxes” masterpiece about love and the ...

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Facing tepid ticket sales, the company will withdraw up to $30 million from its endowment and stage more operas by living composers, which have been outselling the classics. By Javier C. Hernández Hit ...

"The Knock" is a contemporary opera making it's regional premiere at Central City Opera's 2025 Festival. "There's 20 women on stage. We know that one of them is going to get terrible life changing ...