They're winning big prizes, graduating from top music schools, writing bold new works, making exciting debuts — and we think ...

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world ...

From flash mob performances at landmarks to immersive workshops, the China Cultural Center in Budapest curated a Kunqu Opera ...

Flash mobs have been a menace for more than a decade, and it is time that law enforcement cracked down on them. They’re no longer the cute social media phenomenon that used to appear in the early days ...

There were very few members of the audience who left the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival performance of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” without a smile on their faces. And why shouldn’t they have? After all, ...

A black site in Jakarta can change a man. Jason Morgan has spent months in WSB captivity and is finally coming home, but he will not be the same person who left. Steve Burton just lit the internet on ...

The Des Moines Metro Opera launched its 2026 season on June 26, bringing its signature blend of grand classics, American storytelling and bold rarities back to the Blank Performing Arts Center in ...

The LA Opera has reported that its 40th anniversary season proved to be a year of exceptional audience response, community engagement, and momentum. The 2025-26 season was marked by added performances ...

Imagine a world 400 years in the future, where a young woman is forced into exile after discovering she carries a rare gene linked to extraordinary power and immortality. That's the premise of a new ...

So what exactly is a 'rock opera'? And where does the 'rock opera' end and the common or garden 'concept album' begin? The answer to that is above my pay grade, but the phrase has become common ...

Marc A. Levin is chief policy counsel for the Council on Criminal Justice. Khalil Cumberbatch is the council’s director of engagement and partnerships. For decades, politicians and pediatricians alike ...

The story of Carmen, in the 19th century opera by French composer George Bizet, is, at its simplest, the story of a developing tension between Carmen, a stereotypically racialised woman attempting to ...