The Metropolitan Opera cut back its 2026-27 season due to a tight budget, even as ticket sales improved slightly.

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special ...

Opera Kansas is opening its 40th season with Purcell's "Dido & Aeneas," which will be staged for three performances at the ...

Houston Grand Opera will present Carlisle Floyd's OF MICE AND MEN as part of its Butler Studio production series. The opera, based on John Steinbeck's classic novel, will be performed in 2026, ...

British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes’ designs for the sets and costumes are featured in Palm Beach Opera's "The Pearl ...

In everything she did, Lotte Lenya left behind a compound of wilfulness, pain, aggression and wild, effusive charm. The singer and actress was a contradiction: one could speak of her as a creature of ...

An expert in picking locks, Jack Sheppard rose to fame in the 18th century for his spectacular escapes from London’s notorious prisons—but harsh English laws against theft eventually sent him to the ...

Black voices from the south suburbs share their thoughts on which deceased and living African Americans inspired them.

NEW YORK — Frederick Wiseman, the celebrated director of "Titicut Follies" and dozens of other documentaries whose in-depth, unadorned movies comprised a unique and revelatory history of American ...

Among the highlights are the world premiere of an adaptation of “Lincoln in the Bardo,” and classics like “Macbeth” and ...

Outside Washington, the classical music industry suffers the usual ups and downs, shocks and bumps, with layoffs at the ...

And here’s the thing about opera: Don’t assume that you’ll hate it. Guys who love violent video games and TV consider this: ...