Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars.

Retiring from opera has its own set of challenges, but there is plenty I share with the other millions of Americans ending ...

Soprano Asmik Grigorian is to sing the title role in Georges Bizet's “Carmen,” a mezzo-soprano touchstone, for the first time ...

In the mid-1600s, opera transformed from a show exclusive for royalty to entertainment for the masses. Soon, lavish productions, special effects, and creative risks became the norm. Venice’s La Fenice ...

The Metropolitan Opera has released a rehearsal video from its upcoming revival of THE MAGIC FLUTE, offering an early look at Julie Taymor’s production ahead of the opera’s holiday performances. The ...

A new rehearsal video features soprano Lisette Oropesa performing an excerpt from Elvira’s Act II aria in I PURITANI. The ...

Andrei Serban’s 40-year-old production is confidently revived by Jack Furness, while the vocal richness of the Russian soprano as its eponymous heroine takes things to another level When the Royal ...

The 71-year-old performer’s son Micah has been arrested on suspicion of murder, Santa Monica police said Jubilant Sykes, the Grammy-nominated opera and gospel singer, has died aged 71 after being ...

Hailed as "the swinging queen of Polish jazz," Moreno enjoyed a decades-long career and was one of the country's first jazz vocalists after World War II. She was born on July 30, 1926, in Altona near ...

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

This is a Bellini season at the Metropolitan Opera, which is both a welcome and complex proposition. The composer and his bel ...