‘11,000 Strings,’ ‘The Comet/Poppea,’ and ‘The Monkey King’ trace their brilliance to Columbia faculty members.

Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. No one needs reminding that 2025 began in an L.A. aflame. Musicians didn’t escape the fires, especially in ...

Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...

At the opera, my highlights of 2025 included Washington National Opera’s winning “ Porgy and Bess ,” a revival of artistic ...

This post was updated Nov. 21 at 4:35 p.m. Opera UCLA’s latest production plays to haunt the narrative. Over 70 years since its Venice premiere, Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera “The Turn of the Screw ...

Talking to Melanie Helton and Ricky Ian Gordon is like talking with a brother and sister. Helton and Gordon met 40 years ago when they were starving artists trying to make a living in New York. They ...

Composer Huang Ruo long dreamed of adapting the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West” and its mythical character the Monkey King into an opera, but thought that ambition was a pipe dream. “I grew ...

The Chinese musical Jiang Jie was staged at the Beijing Performing Arts Center on Saturday and Sunday. Inspired by the classic Chinese opera of the same title, the musical centers on a female martyr, ...

From Nov 20 to 23, the 2025 Annual Peking Opera Classics Showcase, funded by the National Arts Fund and hosted by the China National Peking Opera Company, will be staged at the Mei Lanfang Theatre in ...

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Detroit's Music Hall will launch a new Classic Opera Series, its first in more than 30 years. The series premieres on Feb. 28, 2026, with a concert production of Puccini's 'Turandot'. The performance ...