Known for his liquid bass tones and flawless diction, he appeared in 88 roles, many of them comic, over 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera.

I grew up with a mother who loved opera, and was taken by her in utero in San Francisco to experience Puccini's Turandot. As ...

New York Festival of Song will kick off its first concert of the new year with Le tour de France on Wednesday, February 26, ...

Virginia Opera is thrilled to announce the return of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Così fan tutte to stages for the first time ...

Even though there’s no shortage of contemporary opera around, we all still long for the rediscovery of a delightful operatic ...

Don Juan might appear as a flawless man who can seduce anyone and bend others to his will, but even he falls in love, revealing his weaknesses and vulnerabilities. This will be the most human Don Juan ...

Geoffrey Paul Penar of Shelburne, Vt., unexpectedly passed away at his home on Jan. 28, 2025, at the age of 36, due to a ...

Despite winning a Pulitzer Prize and receiving great acclaim following its Metropolitan Opera premiere in 1958, Barber and ...

Natalie Johnsonius Neubert, a seasoned arts administrator with deep Berkshire ties, has been named the first president and ...

The final night concert from New Zealand Opera School students had a whole new concept this year. Instead of a kaleidoscope ...

The show must go on! Welsh opera singer Stuart Burrows airlifted to Covent Garden. This clip from BBC Wales Today shows opera singer Stuart Burrows defying the snow and ice of January 1982, and being ...