Every few years, you'll hear a familiar refrain: "Opera is dying." ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Fall Preview Malcolm X at the Met. Jaap van Zweden’s farewell to the New York Philharmonic. Premieres by Kate Soper and Ted Hearne. It’s shaping up to ...

Concert halls and symphony orchestras try to lure younger listeners by mutilating the music. There’s a better way.

Is that a piccolo peeking out from behind the library check-out desk? Could that be a tenor tip-toeing through the turn-styles? Classical orchestral music and opera programs for families have been ...

"Popera" is a new genre, blending opera and pop music together to create a new experience of music - by sampling opera arias, layering them on pop tracks, and writing and recording a pop song over the ...

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.” The opening words of Macbeth’s famous soliloquy come to life this weekend as three performances of a combined opera, ballet and classical music production based ...

Of course, you’ve heard of Latin pop — and opera. They're two genres that are worlds apart. But when you bring them together, you get Latin pop opera. That's the genre of music played by The Latin ...

For half a century, Opera Ebony has been one of the guiding lights for Black performers looking to make their mark on the opera world. Born out of a necessity to develop talent often overlooked, the ...