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In announcing its 2014 season, Chicago Opera Theater continues to move in different directions from its recent past while building on its strong bond with its general director’s Southern California company.

Matti Kovler's Cokboy (A Jew Among The Indians), a tone poem for actor and orchestra. Text: Jerome Rothenberg. Boston Modern Orchestra Project (Gil Rose: con...

The London Symphony Orchestra has announced the death of its longest-serving principal conductor, Sir Colin Davis, at the age of 85.

We interview some of the key players involved in the massive Oresteia of Aeschylus project.

The first “half” of last night’s performance of the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) in Davies Symphony Hall with Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) on the

Lynn Taylor Hebden, a Baltimore-born lyric soprano who headed the Peabody Preparatory Department for more than two decades and was also a member of the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory , died Sunday from complications of breast cancer at her...

An opera depicting how Nazis methodically killed mentally or physically deficient children at a Vienna hospital during World War II may not be...

Personal thoughts on Jenny Bilfield’s appointment

Move over Verdi, Puccini, Bizet... (not you, Mozart)... make room for Lee Holdridge and Richard Sparks. Who?

Welshman Bryn Terfel has a voice you cannot help but listen to, writes Harriet Cunningham.

The ballet La création du monde won Darius Milhaud acclaim for incorporating jazz elements into a classical work, while his membership of the 1920s coterie known as Les Six associated him with musical wit and cleverness.

NEW YORK — Like a Christmas pudding, David McVicar’s take on Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” is so stuffed full of treats and surprises that even if some are not to your taste, you’re likely to enjoy what you find in...

Sir Antonio Pappano, who is one of the world's leading opera conductors, criticised singers for pulling out of productions too easily, saying at times this was due to illness but at others simply due to a lack of commitment.

The new chief executive of the Royal Opera House is Alex Beard, the deputy director of the four Tate museums.

LONDON (Reuters) - New Zealand opera star Kiri Te Kanawa will act, and sing, in an upcoming episode of the hit British stately home drama Downton Abbey, a spokeswoman for the ITV series said on Monday.The...

Mr. Lloyd, an American lyric tenor with New York City Opera in the 1950s, was also known as a recitalist and oratorio soloist.

This week Voices of Music presents the second program in their sixth season of concerts. This will involve a significant departure from the usual Voices of Musi

3 arias from her 1991 recital and some takes behind the scenes. Shirley Verrett (1931-2010) was one of the greatest singer-actresses of the post Callas era. ...