OPERA America has announced the seven composers selected as recipients of the 2024 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program, made possible with the generosity of the Virginia ...

Mannes Opera has unveiled its 2025–2026 season featuring a majority of women composers, conductors, and directors. Highlights include Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone, Korngold’s U.S. premiere The ...

Conductor Gemma New leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in performing 'What Keeps Me Awake,' by the DSO's composer-in-residence Angélica Negrón, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on ...

Carrie Hennessey grew up in the Midwest, where choral singing was a cultural staple. The youngest of eight children with a mom who taught piano, Hennessey was barely out of her teens when she burst ...

When Emmy-nominated composer Levi Taylor saw Terence Blanchard's opera Champion (2013), it awakened something in him. "I was like, 'wow, wait, there's somebody who looks like me who's writing diverse ...

Juliane Gallant will conduct Opera Saratoga’s “La Vie Parisienne.” Jarrett Porter will play Georg Nowack in Opera Saratoga’s “She Loves Me.” Mary Birnbaum, general and artistic director of Opera ...

The Philippine Opera Company (POC), headed by its artistic director Karla Gutierrez, has officially launched the latest batch of Opera Belles, an all-female singing group that merges operatic vocals ...

“The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts)” subverts expectations of the genre by making fun of classical composers typically featured in these concerts. The show, written by librettist Jeremy Denk ...

Months before Houston Grand Opera’s world premiere of “Intelligence" on Oct. 20, a rehearsal is underway deep in the fourth-floor maze of the Wortham Theater Center. Director and choreographer Jawole ...

Are “ya” ready for an aria? While opera has been something of a phantom in Rochester, a new organization called the Hometown Opera Company is working to change that. The company's first performance, a ...