The construction of the Australian icon was plagued by technical problems, soaring costs, public anger and political ...

Playful and satirical, the Marx Brothers’ 1935 A Night at the Opera pokes fun at opera’s elitism while celebrating its spectacle, capturing the era’s ambivalence toward “high” art forms seen as both ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the symphonies of the early-twentieth-century Black composer Florence Price. The National ...

WPI professor Lucy Caplan explores how Black artists helped transform opera in new book "Dreaming in Ensemble." ...

His father, a teacher, was subsequently rector of Waitaki Boys’ High School in Ōamaru and then of Scots College, Wellington, both of which schools Michael attended. Laws won a sporting blue at Otago ...

With the 96-year-old US-resident composer in attendance, the opening of Thea Musgrave’ s Mary, Queen of Scots was an event of ...

Opera Santa Barbara's (OSB) next production will be "The Marriage of Figaro” (1786), with music by Wolfgang Mozart, and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, ...

People can get pretty loud when they’re talking about politics. But they don’t have anything close to the volume these voices ...

Amjad Taha, an expert in strategic political affairs in the Middle East, has emphasised the need to implement stronger ...

Aubrey Sitterson and Jed Dougherty have teamed up for a sci-fi space opera with Free Planet, out in May 2025 from Image ...

Premiered by Scottish Opera at the Edinburgh International Festival ... The long first act deals with the religious and political struggles facing Mary, arriving back home in Scotland as queen.