Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is retiring from the stage after a last performance as Maria in the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera, and looking ahead to directing and mentoring.

The production team of Bizet’s “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera demanded their names be removed from programs due to a ...

In 2021, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) launched a five-year initiative, “As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage”, spotlighting Black composers and featuring five operas ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera in New York presented the first excerpt from the opera The Mothers of Kherson on Monday 2 June. The production tells the story of deported children and their mothers who set out ...

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, one of the world’s preeminent artist-development programs, has revealed that applications are now open for its 2026/27 ...

SEVEN NEWS. WE ARE ALSO SIMILARLY AT A CROSSROADS IN HISTORY RIGHT NOW, AND I THINK WE DESERVE TO LOOK BACK AND SAY, YOU KNOW, WE AS AMERICANS HAVE THAT STAMINA, WE HAVE THAT MUSCLE, WE HAVE THAT ...

Metropolitan Opera singer, Valerian Ruminski, exposes the life of an opera singer in OPERA EXPOSED or ‘How I Lost My Mind and Became an Opera Singer’. An evening of song and untold stories from ...