The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...
The first opera of the season at the French Opera House marked the start of the New Orleans’ social season. The massive 80-foot tall opera house, which opened in 1859 at the corner of Bourbon and ...
Bourbon Street — where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock 'n' roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes — is also one of the first places in America where opera was heard. Now, it's being ...
New York's  Heartbeat Opera—the indie company whose daring, stripped down takes of classic operas have been called 'a radical endeavor' by The New Yorker and 'revelatory' by The Los Angeles ...
2 Review: MOZART’S THE MAGIC FLUTE at The Metropolitan Opera EM: I'm so impressed with what I've been reading and hearing about you. Your upcoming schedule is mind-boggling. BH: Yes, it's a little ...
How does a French opera set in 1820s Spain become one of the most popular operas of all time? Just ask a French conductor. ’s production of Bizet’s “Carmen.” “These tunes are so richly inspired that ...
This weekend, The A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts will present operas it probably would not have explored had it not been for the pandemic. It has ...
PARIS — Immortalized in the canvases of Edgar Degas and the novels of Victor Hugo, ballet dancers and opera singers occupy a cherished position in the French imagination. But these days, they are ...
Though every German soprano worthy of her breastplate has sung the role of the Marschallin in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, other singers keep a respectful distance. The Marschallin’s notes are within ...