One of the oldest opera companies in the U.S. is celebrating its 90th anniversary in Colorado this year. The Central City Opera kicked off the summer season at the beginning of July. The company has ...

On October 9, 1986, the final curtain came down on the opening night performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. The audience responded with a stunning 10-minute ovation. Clearly, ...

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Opera is famously a grand synthesis of all the arts, or at least so its devotees would have you believe. It combines orchestral and vocal music, theater, dance, visual arts, literature and, ...

For centuries, opera was not only the most prestigious form of Western music but also the most political. Cohen observes that the invention of opera coincided with the emergence of the modern ...

Editor’s Note: Naomi André is an opera expert, academic and published author. Her most recent book is “Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely ...