Think opera is all velvet curtains, impossibly expensive tickets and stories you vaguely remember from school? Think again.

The Philippine Opera Company (POC), headed by its artistic director Karla Gutierrez, has officially launched the latest batch of Opera Belles, an all-female singing group that merges operatic vocals ...

There is a considerable wealth of classical music and opera in Wales. The popular perception of a tradition of the harp and the male voice choir is a long way from the 21st century reality of a ...

Wales' flagship company may be Welsh National Opera, but there is plenty of other flourishing operatic activity. WNO has won a reputation as one of the world's greatest opera companies. It attracts ...

Welsh National Opera hit the heights with Britten – only to be brought low by funding cuts, Barenboim returned to the Proms and Edinburgh’s Usher Hall radiated with sheer ferocious energy in a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Fall Preview Osvaldo Golijov’s Lorca-inspired opera comes to New York, and the pianist Igor Levit plays with the Cleveland Orchestra, among other ...

The director James Brining returned to Opera North to direct this revival of his spectacular production of The Magic Flute – he takes the view that the work is “a profound piece of art about humanity ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few ...