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 ...

Eun Sun Kim is the first woman to serve as music director of one of America’s largest opera companies. She aims to broaden the art form’s appeal in the digital age. By Javier C. Hernández SAN ...

A few years ago, composer Matthew Suttor was exploring Alan Turing’s archives at King’s College, Cambridge, when he happened upon a typed draft of a lecture the pioneering computer scientist and World ...

Ahead of Irish National Opera's nationwide tour of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma this May and June, the production's director Orpha Phelan tells us how opera can 'help us understand ourselves better'. I'm ...

Third graders at Reid Park Academy prepared for their lesson on Monday like they were warming up to perform at the theater — which, in a way, they were. Three visiting teaching artists from Opera ...

Opera has a new browser in the works that's designed to help you focus, balance your life, and reduce stress. Those are bold claims from a web browser, but Opera has included several features in its ...

Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman have adapted “Awakenings,” drawing both on source material and personal experience. By Joshua Barone “These are all cycads,” the composer Tobias Picker said, ...