The famed tenor succumbed to pancreatic cancer at age 71. Sept. 6, 2007 — -- Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti has died at his home in Modena, Italy, the singer's manager said. The legendary ...

The Dallas Opera is presenting Christoph Willibald Gluck’s famous 1762 opera, “Orpheus and Eurydice,” for the first time. In this production, director Joachim Schamberger has reimagined the staging to ...

The George and Nora London Foundation Competition for American and Canadian opera singers, one of the opera world's oldest and most prestigious competitions, will hold its 53rd event in 2025, with a ...

"Porgy and Bess" — an opera that spotlights Black voices and helped define the Houston Grand Opera's legacy — returns to the opera house after 30 years. Why it matters: HGO's 1976 production — among ...

Opera Naples' upcoming season is shaping up to be a big one. The opera company plans four fully staged operas for the first time since the pandemic — and those operas are some of the best-known, ...

On January 2, 1958, a minor official at the Rome Opera House bore the thankless task of announcing bad news to the audience: Maria Callas had left the building. The legendary soprano, stricken by ...

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...

Metropolitan opera bass-baritone Keith Miller (Art ex’96) starred in Home Soiree – Opera Gala at the Crested Butte Music Festival last summer. Home Soiree was a collection of arias and ensembles from ...

Watching a crowd at the Royal Opera House in London is not like watching the crowd at a Pittsburgh Opera performance. At the Royal Opera House, there’s a pervasive air of glitz and glamour, light ...

Showcasing a panorama of Greek art music and featuring the full range of its artistic forces, the Greek National Opera is set to host the International Opera Awards Ceremony at the Stavros Niarchos ...