NEW YORK — On Wednesday at St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral, Opera Lafayette gave the first of two concerts celebrating the 30-year career of its departing founder, artistic director and conductor, Ryan ...

Every few years, you'll hear a familiar refrain: "Opera is dying." ...

Madison, North Carolina, native Mary Cardwell Dawson is the subject of an exhibition at the Charlotte Museum of History. She founded the National Negro Opera Company in 1941. The exhibition closes Feb ...

In this sometimes plodding, sometimes energetic, but always fascinating history of opera, music historians Abbate and Parker conduct us on a captivating journey from the birth of opera in the 17th ...

Opera's first centennial -- Opera seria -- Discipline -- Opera buffa and Mozart's line of beauty -- Singing and speaking before 1800 -- The German problem -- Rossini and transition -- The tenor comes ...