Opera Philadelphia’s latest premiere is like an exquisite corpse, with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson and starring Justin ...

Three opera icons stepped onto the stage during Friday's opening ceremony. Each of them are more than 200 years old ...

A high-concept stunt? A rare stroke of artistic luck? A Frankensteinian collage of 21st-century life? All of that can be said about Complications in Sue, an opera of sorts that premiered with ...

After 138 years, what is thought to be the earliest existing opera by a Black American composer is finally getting its world premiere. A concert opera performance of Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane,” which is ...

The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner is trying something new — instead of a musical for Broadway, he's written an opera, now playing in Philadelphia.

Move over, Verdi — there’s a new generation in opera. The Cosmia Opera Collective is bringing students’ work to life, especially that of historically marginalized composers. According to Bienen ...

Hi! It’s my birthday!” says the cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond, swanning through the audience in an iridescent feathered ...

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CHICAGO (CBS)-- Opera, as an art form, is all about collaboration between a librettist, composer, conductor and performers, among others. That can make it very challenging for any artist to break into ...

When Opera Philadelphia announced a new multiauthored work titled Complications in Sue, one was right to ask, “What, exactly, is it?” The piece was written in less than a year and is still in progress ...

Contemporary American opera has made such great artistic strides in the past 15 to 20 years that many call our present time the Golden Age of American Opera. For instance, one of the leading opera ...