Longtime patrons of the New Orleans Opera have watched, with apprehension, the sharp decline in attendance at productions in the Mahalia Jackson Theater over the past 20 years. Dating back to the 19th ...

The Women's Guild of the New Orleans Opera Association gathered on Thursday (Oct. 13) to dedicate a commissioned statue of "Un Bel Di," or Madame Butterfly in celebration of its 50th anniversary in ...

In context, these words are ironic, even painful. But we have to get there first. Rigoletto tells the story of a hunchbacked court jester of the same name (Malcolm MacKenzie) and his daughter, Gilda ...

At Hudson Hall, the director R.B. Schlather leans on artists and musicians from the community. The results have made for better opera. From left, Chuanyuan Liu, Song ...

Two North Carolina opera companies announced this week that they will merge into one, Raleigh-based company in the hopes of saving money and producing more operas. Two North Carolina opera companies ...

From Thursday's opinion by Judge Analisa Torres (S.D.N.Y.) in Netrebko v. Metropolitan Opera Ass'n: After Anna Netrebko, an acclaimed opera singer, refused to repudiate Russian President Vladimir ...

Nova Scotia opera singer Barbara Hannigan is celebrating this week after earning her third Grammy nomination. Hannigan is up for best opera recording in Lessons In Love and Violence. "I actually I had ...

Nick Cave has teamed up with Belgian composer Nicholas Lens to release ‘L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S’, his self described “lockdown opera”. Lens, who is known internationally for his 2012 opera ‘Slow Man’, began ...

Watch the moment a guest at the Vienna Opera Ball drops the N-word in front of Kim Kardashian and momager Kris Jenner. The reality star was reportedly paid $500k to accompany Austrian businessman ...

From Judge Analisa Torres's decision in Netrebko v. Metropolitan Opera Ass'n, Inc.: In the [earlier order], the Court found that Netrebko did not allege direct evidence of discriminatory intent….