Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...

Drained as they are at present of crucial funds, WNO are managing to put on only two operas this spring, and spaced out to ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

INSKEEP: Matt Bloom of member station WWNO met the artists giving voice to a long-lost opera by a native son of New Orleans .

Therese Kayikwamba Wagner is the Congolese minister of foreign affairs. She joins us now. Foreign Minister, thanks so much for being with us. THERESE KAYIKWAMBA WAGNER: Thank you for having me. SIMON: ...

The Live from the MET in HD series continues with the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Aida” at noon and 6:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Lark Theater at 549 Magnolia Ave. in Larkspur.

Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, according to the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday Clock. The ominous metaphor ticked one second closer to midnight this week. The clock now stands ...

Her compositions are praised as “Timeless” (by Carnegie Hall), “Precious, soaring lyrical lines” (Metropolitan Opera, Opera News), and “both poignant and important.” (Yo-Yo Ma ...

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.

The Metropolitan Opera is a nonprofit to which gifts can ... included tenors Tyrese Byrd and Logan Wagner, and Soprano Katherine Malone, who will advance to the Southeastern Regional Competition ...

Her remaining schedule includes recitals in San Francisco on Feb. 4 and Los Angeles on Feb. 11, and a production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” at New York’s Metropolitan Opera from March 4-15.