Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...
After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...
It’s one of the most oft retold stories of Greek mythology. The beautiful Eurydice, beloved of the musician Orpheus, dies and ...
From Bradley Cooper to Angelina Jolie, many A-list actors are stepping into adaptations of the classical music world. What do they have to do to give a convincing performance?
Givonna Joseph, a mezzo-soprano who founded Opera Créole with her daughter in 2011, first encountered Morgiane in 2014 when a ...
“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...
Music, as a universal language, has the power to connect and bridge differences between cultures. Since operatic music serves ...
Tito Muñoz, former assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra and most recently music director of the Phoenix Symphony, ...
Verdi’s Nabucco, and especially its chorus Va’, Pensiero, has been long associated with Risorgimento and is still today a symbol of freedom ...
From the beginning, Arvo Volmer’s career has been closely tied with the Estonian National Opera, where he was appointed to ...
Richard Tucker, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, is still acclaimed and revered as one of the greatest operatic tenors of the 20th century.