The world premiere run of "Suddenly Last Summer" showed some serious musical skill, but continuous tonal shifts left it ...

Wilmington Concert Opera announced a collaboration with Philadelphia-based Opera Fresca to perform Bizet's CARMEN in the ...

It’s “I Spy” — the 1960s TV show about a Black spy partnered with a white one — but so much more historical, locally significant and … well … operatic ...

La Fille du Régiment at Festival Napa Valley. Photo: Drew Altizer When he first performed the alto role of Aci in Nicola Porpora’s Polifemo in 2013, one can hear someone shout “Farinelli” after his ...

The new Robert Icke staging of “Don Giovanni” might upset more than a few spirits. The scenic proposal is certainly disruptive, and its insistence on intervening digitally in the opera’s soundscape is ...

‘Alfred Brendel's playing of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor) is remarkable for the freshness of his approach to familiar music. It is as if he has forgotten all the many ...

The words aria and song are often used interchangeably – but are they really the same? Let’s clear up the confusion, breaking down what sets an aria apart, where the terms overlap, and why it all ...

Read on for an introduction to Jakub Józef Orliński, the much-admired countertenor (and seriously gifted breakdancer... and sometime model... OK, enough already) who has attracted huge praise with his ...

To appreciate the extensive influence Italian opera has had on Classical music we need to take a good look into its past. One claim is that Italian opera began in the Renaissance Era. It was ...

Opera is not one thing, as many people know. Instead, opera is an umbrella term for a large host of different categories and types ranging from the typical to the rather peculiar. While Mozart looks ...

What comes to your mind when you hear the word drama? Most people think of something created for theatre, television, or radio. There are multiple types of drama in literature, each with unique ...

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