In a vast studio at the Seattle Opera Center on a recent Monday evening, a glorious noise was heard. While rehearsing the end of Act I of the beloved Puccini opera “Tosca,” the voices of 46 Seattle ...

Throughout human history, there have been women who left their mark on the world while presenting themselves as men. They were usually trying to escape the limits that patriarchal power imposed on the ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago has released video footage of Justin Austin performing 'What Makes a Man a Man' from Terence Blanchard's CHAMPION below. Ahead of his fateful fight with Benny "Kid" Paret, Emile ...

When someone is transplanted from one side of the planet to the other, language is but the first of many barriers to cross-cultural understanding. Anyone who has become a refugee has likely ...

Twenty-five years ago, a new opera titled “Dead Man Walking” made its world premiere in a San Francisco Opera production. Based on the same-titled 1993 memoir by author and activist Sister Helen ...

English National Opera’s (ENO) new production of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking is a towering achievement – musically, dramatically and emotionally. Directed by Annilese Miskimmon ...

A still from one of the AI projections in Verdigris Ensemble's production of "Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt." Missy Mazzoli's multimedia opera traces the emotional ...