The opening scenes of attending an opera are standard. Storming applause announces the conductor’s assumption of his post at the front of the pit. A grand curtain rises to reveal a dazzling set, and a ...
With her shimmery voice, a penchant for Jimmy Choo heels and a resume that includes a cameo in the “Hannibal” movie and a duet with LL Cool J at Carnegie Hall, soprano Danielle de Niese is blurring ...
Opera is a spectacle, and twice a year OperaDelaware gets to present all the opulence, drama, and passion of live opera with full orchestra at The Grand Opera House in Wilmington. Last spring’s ...
Keturah Stickann has directed productions of grand opera throughout the country, marshaling scores of singers, dozens of musicians, massive set designs and all the other elements that have to work ...
This spring, Portland Opera checks in to the Overlook Hotel. The company is taking a big artistic swing and staging The Shining, an opera composed by Paul Moravec with a libretto by Mark Campbell, ...
When we say the winter music calendar has everything we are barely exaggerating. The season has multiple Pixies-related projects, Huey Lewis covers, century-old operas, rising pop stars, and New ...
"TakTakShoo" is premiering as a short film by Opera Philadelphia. Stuck in the doldrums of pandemic lockdown and looking for something to keep herself busy, opera singer Kristen Choi started learning ...
WASHINGTON — Opera and trucks may seem an unlikely pairing. But the Washington National Opera (WNO) revved up a moving truck this fall to bring live performances to Virginians during the COVID-19 ...
Following Anna Nicole, Breaking Bad is set to become an opera in 2014. Are pop culture adaptations the future of opera? Clemency Burton-Hill investigates. I never thought I’d see the day when Perez ...