Essentially, opera is an art form that is nearly entirely reliant on donations. The top opera companies pull anywhere between ...

The Lisner Auditorium, at George Washington University, is smaller than the Kennedy Center’s Opera House, with 1,400 seats ...

The men favored black suits, but Cio-Cio-San (aka Butterfly) and Suzuki wore dramatically patterned gowns from the fashion ...

She walked towards a waiting car in a flowing gown, her head erect, a perfect smile on her face, as if she was walking onto a ...

Johan Strauss II's masterwork, which will be performed Jan. 16 and 18 by the Cedar Rapids Opera with Orchestra Iowa at the ...

Poor deluded Cio-Cio-San. She put her love and trust in a dashing guy in a spiffy uniform who turned out to be surprise! a cad and a bounder. There is hardly an opera in the entire repertoire more ...

Based on the real-life trial of Bernard Boursicot, this breathtaking drama reimagines Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly through the story of a French diplomat’s 20-year affair with a Chinese opera ...

NORTHAMPTON — As I walked and whistled out of the Academy of Music on Nov. 9, Able Seaman Paul Peelle — still made up for the stage and dressed in stripes of white and Royal Navy blue — reminded me of ...

Director Michelle Ainna Cuizon recalls her earliest days growing up in the Philippines, where music and karaoke were ways of life among her family and friends. What she did not connect at the time was ...

From Opera San Jose’s new take on an old classic to a world premiere drawn from an ancient fable to a Contemporary Christian superstar and a festival of silent films in Orinda, there is a lot see and ...

San Francisco Opera's premiere production of Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's "The Monkey King" runs Nov. 14–30, 2025 in the War Memorial Opera House. (Corey Weaver/San Francisco Opera via Bay City ...

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