After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...

Verdi, on the other hand — his beard was an ungroomed mess.

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

Andrea Bocelli will open the 2025 continuation of his 30th anniversary tour singing with the Omaha Symphony Orchestra at the ...

By coincidence, the initials V-E-R-D-I stood for ‘Vittorio Emmanuel, Re D’Italia’ and everywhere, all over Italy, the composer’s name/political slogan was to be seen. The cries of ‘Viva Verdi’ could ...

The Royal Opera’s newest production, Festen, is a rebuke to those who accuse the art form of being elitist and outdated, says the company’s director Oliver Mears ...

Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained unheard until now.

Throughout the 19th century, New Orleans was the nation’s premiere destination for opera performances, with Italian composers like Vincenzo Bellini and Gioachino Rossini staging their American ...

Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the ...

Calgary Opera’s second offering this season is Donizetti’s fun-filled, comic opera Don Pasquale. Although it is set in Italy ...