Nov 21st, 2008 · Placido Domingo is the most durable, thoughtful opera singer in recent history. Andrea Bocelli has sold more than 60 million albums. The two icons discuss their first performance together and describe what makes opera relevant today.
Nov 21st, 2008 · Strauss's lurid, yet sumptuous one-act opera tells the story of Elektra and her decidedly dysfuntional family — her murdered father Agamemnon, her frantic sister Chrysothemis, and their homicidal mother, Klytaemnestra. The production is from the Washington National Opera.
Nov 14th, 2008 · Placido Domingo sings the key scene from one of the first great tenor roles ever composed — Bajazet, in Handel's Tamerlano. Bajazet's death is among the most dramatic solo scenes in all of Baroque opera.
Nov 11th, 2008 · Jeffrey Zhang is known for mixing the traditional Chinese opera form with pop music and kabuki dancers. But now he's begun to incorporate free-form jazz piano in a culture clash that's turning heads and winning over new fans.
Nov 6th, 2008 · Darren Lynn Bousman thinks his "genetic opera" has the potential to be the next Donnie Darko or Rocky Horror Picture Show. But can you engineer a cult classic? Or is it only fans who can decide what's worthy of devotion?
Nov 3rd, 2008 · Peruvian singer Yma Sumac died Saturday at age 86. Sumac recorded an extraordinarily wide vocal range of more than four octaves; she could sing notes in the low baritone register as well as notes above the range of an ordinary soprano.
Oct 31st, 2008 · Wagner's stormy one-acter requires lead singers with great power, both dramatically and vocally. Alan Held and Jennifer Wilson fit the bill in this turbulent opera focused on one of Wagner's favorite themes — the redemptive power of love. From the Washington National Opera.
Oct 24th, 2008 · William Bolcom's searing opera, after a play by Arthur Miller, is a sometimes bleak, yet always vivid drama set in the Italian-American community of Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the 1950s.