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Violetta Urmana had not sung at the Metropolitan Opera since 2017.

Germany’s opera houses have been rattled by aging audiences, diminished public funding and a decline in civic life. Can these ...

Milan's La Scala announced in May that Chung will take the post when current director Riccardo Chailly's contract ends in late 2026. Chung is the first Asian and second non-Italian to hold the ...

Memorable performances included a pair of Strauss operas, a suave villain, a star soprano in “Fidelio” and a new conductor in ...

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

Watch and listen to recent highlights, including a Shostakovich festival in Germany, the Cleveland Orchestra’s Strauss and Nina Stemme’s Isolde.

Opera's future lies in balancing preservation and innovation, as Opera Philadelphia proves with bold programming, accessible pricing and a refusal to let the art form fossilize.

Soprano Lauren Snouffer, who plays the lead, talks about this colorful new production and the timeless themes that still ...