While playing Bella Ciao on a public piano an opera singer suddenly joins the music turning the performance into a powerful duet that draws the attention of people passing by and creates an ...

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “The Silent Serenade,” written in the 1940s, was given its English-language, United States premiere ...

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Gerald Barry’s bold take on Oscar Wilde’s Salomé brings daring new music, surreal staging and star performers to Disney Hall.

A little more than a century ago, a handful of Cleveland’s leading women founded The Cleveland Institute of Music. “They ...

The country house opera season is an integral part of British summertime culture and – in contrast to those Arcadian days ...

What makes a “grand opera” grand? Well, in part, it’s the sheer number of artists involved, reviewer Page Laws says.