OPERA America has announced grants to five companies to support the commissioning of new works by women composers as part of its Opera Grants for Women Composers program, generously supported by the ...

OPERA America has revealed the eight recipients of the 2025 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program. Grants totaling $100,000 will support the development of new opera and ...

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LOCAL OPERA SINGERS HOMECOMING. KATHRYN HENRY OF CHEBOYGAN MAKING A NAME FOR HERSELF AT ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS THEATERS, THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE IN NEW YORK CITY. BUT THIS MONTH, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Two new works, “The Listeners” and “Grounded,” echo the age-old spectacle of female disintegration and show the tension of fitting ...

The night before Scottish singer Monica McGhee was due to have surgery to remove a tumour from her thyroid, she locked ...

I’d say one of the greatest barriers to enjoying opera is knowing whether or not the singing is good. I’m being serious. It’s a problem for those who haven’t spent years studying voice or exploring ...

We're less easily shocked today. But watching Florentine Opera's new production of "Carmen," it's easy to see what startled its Parisian audience when Bizet's opera debuted in 1875. Carmen's brazen ...

Ask someone to visualize an orchestra conductor, and the image will probably be male. Female music directors remain as rare with top orchestras and opera companies as female CEOs at major corporations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK – Before she could play an opera legend, Angelina Jolie had to find her voice. When Jolie first signed on, "I thought, ...