Kim's music directorship begins with Tosca, a masterpiece central to San Francisco Opera since it opened the War Memorial Opera House in 1932. Kim will also lead Live and In Concert: The Homecoming on ...

Opera Orlando closes its 2021-22 Mainstage Verdi season with Rigoletto, the composer's first significant success. This tragic masterpiece portrays the story of a deformed court jester caught in a ...

Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on September 22, 1869, ...

Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his ...

For many, the return to the opera house has been a risk willingly taken — in service of the palpable human desire for live connection and an overwhelming need for the kind of emotional sustenance ...

NEW YORK — “We bend, we don’t break. We sway!” sings the chorus in the second act of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” The words described how much of the audience of about 4,000 at the ...

NEW YORK — There's a line in the middle of Act I of composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmon's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" that sat in my head like a caption throughout the show's premiere ...

In 2021, Terence Blanchard and Wayne Shorter realized long-held dreams: the celebrated musicians both premiered operas. These are great stories that represent overdue opportunity and a fresh aesthetic ...

Eight finalists will compete in The Dallas Opera's 31st National Vocal Competition, sponsored by The Dallas Opera Guild.(The Dallas Opera) One of the leading opera companies in the country, The Dallas ...