A newbie's guide for going to the opera
Opera aficionados recommend listening to clips of the opera online via YouTube, Spotify or other sites beforehand.
Angel Blue Doubted Her Path in Opera. Now She’s a Star.
Once used to frequent rejection letters, Blue has become a regular on major stages and is singing the title role in “Aida” at ...
Paul Plishka, whose Metropolitan Opera career spanned 51 years, dies at age 83
Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over ...
Singers worldwide converge in Columbia to vie for a shot at the Met Opera in New York City
Every year, opera singers from around the world converge on SC's Columbia College's campus with one goal: to make it to the ...
At a Gilded Florida Resort, Anna Netrebko Tries U.S. Comeback
The Russian singer, shunned over her past support of Vladimir V. Putin, made her first American appearance since 2019 at a ...
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With new 'Aida' staging, Met tries out grandiose opera for the contemporary age
"Aida" has long epitomized opera at its most extravagant -- think sweeping sets, luxurious costumes and even real-live horses ...
This Opera Star Says Crying Is the Best Therapy
Lise Davidsen, one of the greatest sopranos of her generation, talks about her upcoming Met performance, meeting Angelina ...
Met Opera’s Lindsay Ohse steps into the glass slipper of ‘Cendrillon’
Met Opera soprano and Grammy winner Lindsay Ohse will play the hopeful Cinderella in Opera Orlando’s next production, ...
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Soprano Lise Davidsen pregnant with twins, cancels performances from mid-March through December
Soprano Lise Davidsen is pregnant with twins and is canceling her performances from mid-March through the end of the year.
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Tucson song festival tenor answers call for once-in-lifetime opp
It was Peter Gelb, general manager of New York Metropolitan Opera. The principal tenor singing the role of Radamés in the Met’s new staging of Verdi’s “Aida” was fighting a virus.
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Lost opera from New Orleans-born Black composer will premiere 138 years after completion
The wine flowed. The caviar was as salty as ever. And singer Chauncey Packer, a tenor with The Metropolitan Opera in New York, treated the group to two selections from a 138-year-old opera by New ...