Technically, there is no such Emmy as the “Best Soap Opera in 2021” Emmy. The “highest-ranking” Emmy is actually called the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy. And, this year, General Hospital took home ...
Opera Orlando closes its 2021-22 Mainstage Verdi season with Rigoletto, the composer's first significant success. This tragic masterpiece portrays the story of a deformed court jester caught in a ...
During a special live Zoom meeting with current New Orleans Opera subscribers on May 3, Clare Burovac, general director of the New Orleans opera announced, “The Opera is returning to the theater for ...
NEW YORK — “We bend, we don’t break. We sway!” sings the chorus in the second act of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” The words described how much of the audience of about 4,000 at the ...
In 2021, Terence Blanchard and Wayne Shorter realized long-held dreams: the celebrated musicians both premiered operas. These are great stories that represent overdue opportunity and a fresh aesthetic ...
NEW YORK — There's a line in the middle of Act I of composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmon's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" that sat in my head like a caption throughout the show's premiere ...
This fall, The Metropolitan Opera reopened a year and a half after shutting its doors following the coronavirus lockdown. For smaller venues and opera companies, the road back to indoor performances ...
For many, the return to the opera house has been a risk willingly taken — in service of the palpable human desire for live connection and an overwhelming need for the kind of emotional sustenance ...
Monsieur Lefèvre is a role in The Phantom of the Opera, a musical that opened West End in 2021. Based on Gaston Leroux’s horror novel, The Phantom of the Opera tells the enticing story of a disfigured ...