President Trump moved hell and high water to ensure Long Islander opera star Christopher Macchio got his moment to shine in ...

Supernumeraries are human set pieces for opera productions. Here’s the inside story of one woman’s quest to get herself one of those roles at Music Hall.

On the opening night of director Richard Jones's excellent production of Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, England's captain, ...

Sunday was opening day at Chautauqua, and like all Sundays during the 9-week season, admission was free. Ginger, my BFF from ...

While the country house opera season is in full swing, the Royal Opera has mounted a major new production of Bellini’s final ...

For a production of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s two-act opera “Pagliacci,” presented by the Minnesota Opera and now playing at the Ordway Music Theater, stage director Brenna Corner inserts a young child ...

Long before it was cool for attractive young people to say opera is a “dying art form,” Jersey City’s Zombie Opera has been ironically winking at the notion that this 400-year-old tradition is long ...

With tunes almost everyone can recognize, Bizet’s Carmen is universally accepted as the most popular opera of all time. Not so well known is that the composer virtually died of disappointment after ...

After over 100 performances in more than a dozen different productions playing the eponymous character, opera singer J’Nai Bridges has made it indisputably clear: Carmen is her calling. The Lakewood ...

A Florida car salesman has gone viral for singing opera to sell vehicles. Andrew Hiers, a classically trained singer, began rewriting arias with car-themed lyrics to generate sales leads. His videos ...

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In a now notorious interview, actor Timothée Chalamet declared he only wanted to work in a creative field people valued. He was not keen on an art form like opera, “where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this ...