This week, Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, co-founders of Toronto's Opera Atelier, will be at Penn State University, leading master classes on Baroque operatic technique. A few weeks ...

The Valkyrie Ensemble, a feminist opera collective based in Chicago, will present an all-femme cast of women, non-binary, and ...

I've just written a new opera that premiered at the Met in New York. The beauty of that slightly outrageous statement is that it is not entirely untrue. OK, nothing about my new opera is really new.

Opera is a vocally-driven performing art. But this past Tuesday, Ellen Hargis—a “Baroque-music diva” according to The New Yorker—proved that sleight of hand can improve even the most skilled voices.

It was during the Paul Kellogg era of the nineties and the aughts that New York City Opera became a force for Baroque opera—specifically works by Handel, which, with their historical-mythical plots ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As they have for decades, 19th-century warhorses like “La Bohème” and “Carmen” still dominate opera- house marquees. But just as today’s diners are ...

Fabio Ceresa is the director for Antonio Vivaldi's "Orlando Finto Pazzo" which will be performed until May 14 at the LG Art Center in Seoul. It is a rare piece to be staged anywhere in the world - ...

"So what is contemporary opera?" an acquaintance asks skeptically when I announce what I am working on. Good question. For many, the term is an oxymoron, because for them opera means "grand opera" and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Daniel J. Wakin They called it a pasticcio pastry a mishmash of arias by different composers, sometimes given new texts and often chosen by the ...