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When the recent Metropolitan Opera’s production of Turandot began, a figure looking like a street rat scurried out from stage right dressed in rags. Soon the expansive stage filled with street ...

After more than a year of waiting and worry, the San Francisco Opera (SFO) and San Francisco Symphony (SFS) are back to live, in-person performances. It only feels sudden because the pandemic has ...

Everybody knows the opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. But in a modern opera, the soprano often looks more like a vixen than a Valkyrie, and she acts just as beautifully as she sings. With more ...

Jan. 12, 2010, was the 100th anniversary of the first live transmission of opera via radio. On that date, Acts II and III of Tosca were sent by a transmitter at the Met, via an antenna strung between ...

In Pablo Larraín’s Maria, Angelina Jolie transforms into the late opera diva Maria Callas—not just physically, with her chic French wardrobe, luxurious stage looks, and curly wigs, but also vocally.

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to ...

On May 7, 1964, the curtain went up on Puccini’s “Tosca” at Seattle Opera, marking the newly founded company’s first production. To celebrate its milestone 60th anniversary, Seattle Opera raises a ...

WASHINGTON — Opera tenor Christopher Macchio will sing the national anthem at the President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration before a much smaller crowd than he was expecting, a letdown with a silver ...