Founded in 1883, New York’s historic Metropolitan Opera, which hired its first-ever chief diversity officer in 2021, isn’t known for being of the times. But with his focus on new commissions dealing ...

Over the past 47 years, San Diego Opera has staged Mozart’s 1787 opera “Don Giovanni” five times. The last time was in 2015, when it was presented in a minimalist production dominated by oversize ...

Opera is not boring; it is wonderful. And everything we are doing today is intended to touch the depths of the soul and ...

Resetting 150- to 300-year-old operas in modern times is nothing new for contemporary stage directors aiming to lure today’s audiences. But it’s rare for a 368-year-old baroque opera to seem ...

The Center for Contemporary Opera's (CCO) Fortieth Season will continue with We, The Innumerable by the Iranian composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh and the librettist Lisa Flanagan. The workshop premiere of ...

The “Safety Curtain” series at the Vienna State Opera has put artwork from all over the world in front of audiences since 1998. By Farah Nayeri The Vienna State Opera is not exactly a go-to place for ...

The idea was prompted by the livestream of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 in May 2020, which took place at a time when people around the world were taking to the streets in protests against police ...

Considered Giacomo Puccini’s finest musical masterpiece, Turandot transports audiences to a fantasy land based on a Western conception of China. What does it mean to produce an opera like Turandot ...