A New Year, A Renewed Call to Protect Opera

Opera’s Vanishing Voices” Challenges Perceptions of Cost and Access While Rallying Global Audiences to Celebrate a ...

Opera is waging a battle to save itself in the modern world — and against self-inflicted wounds

Essentially, opera is an art form that is nearly entirely reliant on donations. The top opera companies pull anywhere between ...

Opera is not dying, but it needs a second act for the streaming era

Although opera companies are experiencing financial stress, opera isn't a dying art form. Instead, I found that the public's ...

A Utah arts institution is set to give Beethoven’s only opera a modern spin

“He really admired Napoleon [Bonaparte],” Tara Faircloth, the stage director for the Utah Opera ’s upcoming production of ...

Rhoda Levine, Pathbreaking Opera Director, Dies at 93

Starting out in the 1970s as a rare woman in a field dominated by men, she directed the premieres of a pair of politically ...

Washington National Opera Finds a Stage Outside the Kennedy Center

The Lisner Auditorium, at George Washington University, is smaller than the Kennedy Center’s Opera House, with 1,400 seats ...

Washington National Opera relocates performances away from Kennedy Center to new venues

The Washington National Opera has relocated upcoming performances as it breaks away from the Kennedy Center following ...

Washington National Opera announces new venues after split with Kennedy Center

The Washington National Opera lined up Lisner Auditorium for two upcoming operas — and saw a jump in donations — after announcing plans to leave an arts complex that has been transformed under ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Met Opera adapts Michael Chabon’s Jewish novel ‘Kavalier & Clay’ for the stage

The “epic of an opera” — which tells the story of two Jewish cousins who create a Nazi-fighting superhero — opens Sunday, Sept. 21. Jewish author Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, “The ...