Audiences packed the house for a new production of “Tristan und Isolde.” They also came prepared, with (at least) five ...
Ten years after composer Jake Heggie first had the idea of writing “Intelligence,” an opera based on the true story of two Civil War-era women who spied on the Confederacy, an album recording of the ...
Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know how you do it,” the tenor recently told BBC Radio 3. In the same interview, ...
Derrick Goff, onetime vocal coach at the Metropolitan Opera: “I grew up surrounded by church music, choirs, piano playing. I started taking languages. There’s vocal music in other countries, operas, ...
When Opera in the Heights opens its 2025-2026 season on Friday, it does so with an ambitious slate of programming and a new leader at the helm. Earlier this summer, Kathryn Frady was named the ...
Following a storied career on the operatic stages across the country, acclaimed mezzo soprano Dency Graves is entering the next phase of her career. With 40 years of performing under her belt, Graves ...