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Lotfi Mansouri, the energetic operatic showman whose 13 years as general director brought the San Francisco Opera to new heights of creative innovation, died Friday at his Pacific Heights home at age 84.

Mr. Walton was a respected jazz pianist and composer who worked with Art Blakey, other top musicians.

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The Vienna State Opera says Wagnerian tenor Spas Wenkoff has died at age 84.

These seven tech entrepreneurs want to breathe life into a struggling institution, the San Francisco Opera.

Last night in the Southside Theater at Fort Mason, the Opera Academy of California (OAC) Summer Program For Emerging Singers gave the first of four performances

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MADRID (Reuters) - Opera singer Placido Domingo left a Spanish hospital on Saturday after being hospitalized earlier this week because of a blood clot in his lung, according to a posting on his official...

In a dramatic show of defiance, the cast of Verdi's opera Aida appeared on stage at the Cairo Opera House last week to make an announcement: they weren’t performing.

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

Ms. McPartland, an articulate spokeswoman for music, was on the radio for more than 30 years. She recorded for labels like Savoy and Capitol before forming her own company, Halcyon.

Veteran bass Richard Angas, made famous as Jonathan Miller’s Mikado, has passed away at 71.

Mexico City, Aug 13 (EFE).- The opera "The Emperor of Atlantis," composed in a Nazi concentration camp by Austria's Viktor Ullmann, brought its satirical indictment of Nazism to Mexico for the first time, singer Jose Adan Perez said Tuesday.

An American singer began her long career as a soprano in her home country, then thrived as a mezzo in Europe. She also directed opera and documentary film, working with both her husband and son. She died in her native New York.

A Mozart opera performed at one of Austria's premier music festivals has made an unscheduled splash after a boat carrying three singers overturned and dumped them into a lake.

The beloved star of the Metropolitan Opera is revered for her portrayals of Puccini heroines, especially Madama Butterfly. Her service to opera includes creating the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, which supports emerging singers.

More than a year after the stunning collapse of Opera Boston, a new company is set to emerge with plans to emulate the ambitious programming of that acclaimed but perpetually cash-strapped institution.

Gay Pride month in The City, always filled with memorable events, offers a haunting, highly anticipated new work this year — the world premiere of "I Am Harvey Milk." The oratorio and theater piece, the highlight of the San Francisco Gay...

Joute sportive autant que musicale, événement ultra-mondain,  le Concours Reine Elisabeth de Belgique 2013, session piano, a rendu son verdict hier soir….