Opera (OPRA) and Spotify (SPOT) have partnered to make it easier for users to listen to music, podcasts, and audiobooks while browsing on their computers. Spotify becomes the default streaming service ...

James Conlon, who has conducted more performances with the company than anyone else, will step down from his post in 2026. By Robin Pogrebin Reporting from Los Angeles The year 2026 will mark James ...

Yuval Sharon will leave the financially strained Detroit Opera after this season. In March, he brings his unorthodox vision ...

With her emotion-evoking operatic range and soprano heights, Dominican opera singer Zuly Inirio is challenging whose voice is embodied and heard throughout the genre. She first saw an opera — “La ...

In her incisive book “Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement,” the musicologist Naomi André frames black opera—opera that foregrounds black experiences, voices, and bodies—as a kind of shadow culture ...

Welcome to the CU Boulder New Opera Workshop (CU NOW) at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Founded in 2010 by Leigh Holman, director of the Eklund Opera Program, CU NOW is the first ...

The Kennedy Center premieres a new ending for one of the world's most famous operas on Saturday in Washington, D.C. The opera is Turandot, and its ending has always been, shall we say, problematic.

Los Angeles is not, historically, an opera city. Only in 1986 did it finally found a resident company, Music Center Opera, now Los Angeles Opera. Nor do we boast an actual opera house. The Dorothy ...

Was it the live music I missed most, or the intermissions — with all those delightful exchanges about the performers, the music, the weather, the traffic, or the seats? At last now — after the awful ...

Now being performed at the Kauffman Center and concluding this weekend is a wonderful rendition by the Lyric Opera of Kansas City of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final composition together, “The Sound of ...

Domingo Hindoyan, the chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, will take over next year as music director of Los Angeles Opera. Hindoyan will replace James Conlon, who has held ...