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This is an updated version of a story first published on May 14, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is a conductor operating at triple tempo, at once the director of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Fall Preview Among the highlights: the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer, Carnegie Hall’s reopened doors and more. By Zachary Woolfe ...

The quarreling lovers in Puccini’s La Bohème agree to stay together “until the season of flowers,” which, allowing for global warming, makes March 19 as good a date as any for the return of the Met’s ...

With her emotion-evoking operatic range and soprano heights, Dominican opera singer Zuly Inirio is challenging whose voice is embodied and heard throughout the genre. She first saw an opera — “La ...

Opera Carolina will launch the Classical Artists Fund at Bella Notte: A New Year’s Eve Masquerade Gala at The Ballantyne Hotel. Inspired by The Magic Flute, the event will mark the fund’s public debut ...

Classical radio station WCPE in Wake Forest, N.C. has reversed its stance on six contemporary operas in the Metropolitan Opera's 2023-24 season that it had flagged for 'inappropriate' content. After ...

Sometimes opera gets a bad rap as having irrelevant plots or perpetuating antiquated stereotypes. But opera companies are producing contemporary works that tell true stories about our diverse ...