SAN FRANCISCO -- He can bring you to tears with his Italian arias. But tenor Arturo Chacón-Cruz started his musical journey by singing popular Spanish mariachi songs. The Mexican singer starred in the ...

The company’s overstuffed new staging of Bellini’s final work, set during the English Civil War, proves a marvelous vocal ...

Andrea Bocelli performs with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera Orlando chorus conducted by Steven Mercurio at Kia Center in Orlando on Oct. 9, 2025. (Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentinel) The ...

Tenor Limmie Pulliam has the iconic role of the clown Canio in Florida Grand Opera’s production of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” — and he agrees with the assessment of great singers before him, ...

When it comes to challenging operatic roles for tenors, the clown troupe leader Canio in Leoncavallo Ruggero’s beloved 1892 “Pagliacci” is right up there. It requires power-singing, vocal range and ...

FILE - Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, center, and former first lady Melania Trump, right, listen to opera singer Christopher Macchio at a campaign rally at Madison ...

African American opera tenor George Shirley reflects on his trailblazing music career. As one of the first African American operatic performers, renowned tenor and trailblazer George Shirley’s ...

The production engages live handcrafted special effects and zany audience interactions to recreate the frisky dynamics of the 18th-century singspiel, or German light opera. With its blank canvas stage ...

Acclaimed Ukrainian opera singer Vladislav Horay has been killed while on a volunteer mission to the Sumy region, where a frontline battle for territory continues. Horay was a soloist with the Odesa ...

The label of elitism sticks to opera like superglue. The label is a fake, but one for which no cultural chemical capable of removing it has yet proved effective. Still, opera populists are trying and ...