In 2021, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) launched a five-year initiative, “As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage”, spotlighting Black composers and featuring five operas ...

NEW YORK — In his book on reinventing opera, director Yuval Sharon describes “Tristan und Isolde” as “the single hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage.” Yet here he is, about to make his ...

Opera Philadelphia is bringing to stage the Philadelphia premiere of ”The Black Clown,” a show based on the poetry of ...

Opera loves a good fire. Don Giovanni gets dragged to a fiery hell, Norma perishes in a sacrificial pyre, and Brunnhilde, ...

Chicago Opera Theater (Chicago, IL), for Book of Mountains and Seas, music and libretto by Huang Ruo; Los Angeles Opera (Los Angeles, CA), for Highway 1, USA, music by William Grant Still, libretto by ...

Is 'Tristan' the Hardest Opera to Stage? This Director Thinks So, and Signed on at the Met NEW YORK (AP) — In his book on reinventing opera, director Yuval Sharon describes “Tristan und Isolde” as ...