NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Givonna Joseph of Loyola University New Orleans and Gwen Thompkins of WWNO radio about the influence of opera on jazz music. And that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Fall Preview Among the highlights: the reopening of David Geffen Hall, the premiere of ‘The Hours’ at the Met and visits from the Berlin and Los ...

An American soprano who sang when the United States rejoined UNESCO weighed in on the agency’s addition of Italian opera singing to a heritage list. By Farah Nayeri Is opera an endangered art form ...

Welcome to the CU Boulder New Opera Workshop (CU NOW) at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Founded in 2010 by Leigh Holman, director of the Eklund Opera Program, CU NOW is the first ...

Roger Waters was originally reluctant to let The Wall, his great rock opera, become a standard classical opera. When Pierre Dufour, then the general director of Opéra de Montréal, wrote the former ...

The world-premiere production of Another Brick in the Wall: L’Opéra got a standing ovation at the Opéra de Montréal before the orchestra even tuned up last night. It happened when it was announced ...

For this award-winning French tenor, the secret to happiness lies in finding balance in what he calls his extraordinary life. And so, when his recording and stage schedule allows, the 39-year-old ...