This year’s Opera News Awards are going to sopranos Natalie Dessay and Renee Fleming, mezzo Marilyn Horne, baritone Sherrill Milnes and composer John Adams.

Yesterday I was talking about Fly and here is another news from Meridian Group’s stable (Group that owns Fly). Today Meridian Group and Opera together announced that...

Mr. Vincent was a press representative for a starry roster of opera singers, notably as the publicity agent and an adviser to Plácido Domingo for more than 25 years.

They call it “Summer Madness.” OK, it’s just an advertising slogan that loosely ties together the three works currently in repertory for the San...

The new jet-set production of Handel’s “Rinaldo” at the Zurich Opera left a large segment of the audience pretty much dumbfounded.Director Jens-Daniel...

Just like my last article on disabling GIF animation in Firefox, this one is for Opera users. It is a little bit easier for you all, and takes only seconds. 1) Open...

The renowned Vienna State Opera canceled one performance and complained about dismal attendance at another, blaming the European soccer championship being played in the...

This illustrious building is the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts being built in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Building began in 2006, and once the Center...

A new Web browser from Norway’s Opera Software ASA addresses Internet users’ growing tendency to use multiple computers and devices.Opera 9.5, released...

The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on “Brokeback Mountain,” the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became...

The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on “Brokeback Mountain,” the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became...

First it was the film and the book. Now the next stop for Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is opera.La Scala officials say the Italian composer...

On-stage villains aren’t the only vermin at the Metropolitan Opera.The grand theater at Lincoln Center, where much of New York’s society gathers to show off...

People who use their cell phones to surf the Web tend to steer to social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook ahead of news, maps or weather, mobile browser...

Peter Mussbach, general manager of Berlin’s famed Staatsoper, is leaving due to differences over programming.The foundation that oversees Berlin’s three...

Opera Mini 4.1 guided tourby operasoftware The ‘coolest, fastest, and most secure free Web browser’ will now be available on your...

Lay on Macduff _ and Banquo, too.It was these two supporting characters who stood out Friday night as the Metropolitan Opera assembled an entirely new cast for the...

Wotan’s moment of truth has been depicted thousands of times in opera houses across the world since Wagner’s “Siegfried” premiered 130 years ago...

Two lovers who are separated by fate but remain true to one another. Show-stopping arias filled with coloratura ornamentation. Plenty of high notes. Lots of slapstick...

Rewarding a rare encore with an even rarer standing ovation in midperformance, a rapturous Metropolitan Opera audience hailed the company’s beguiling new...