Among all the composers whose operas have continued to enthral audiences, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is unrivalled. That’s perhaps surprising, because he created some of his most successful works in ...

Grammy-nominated opera singer Jubilant Sykes was stabbed to death inside his L.A.-area home on Monday. His 31-year-old son ...

Singer Jubilant Sykes was the victim of a fatal stabbing at his Santa Monica home on Monday (Dec. 8). The Grammy-nominated ...

Sherrill Milnes is an acclaimed operatic baritone, three-time Grammy Award winner, and co-founder of the Savannah VOICE Festival with his wife, Maria Zouves. A National Medal of the Arts recipient, ...

Giuseppe Verdi composed some of the greatest operas ever – La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida, Otello and many others ...

In 2005, Gus Van Sant released Last Days, his meditative and almost wordless film loosely imagining the final days of Kurt ...

Houston Grand Opera has a new music director. Staff, cast and crew members from Puccini's "Il Trittico" and Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" were invited to gather backstage late Wednesday night for ...

Benita Valente, 91, a revered lyric soprano whose voice thrilled listeners with its purity and seeming effortlessness, died Friday night at home in Philadelphia, said her son, Pete Checchia. In a ...

An African American who spent much of her career based in the Netherlands, she said her race was less of a factor in Europe when being considered for a wide variety of opera roles. By Adam Nossiter ...

There’s a reason why musicals are so popular. There’s something so magical about a world where talented folks break out in song at the drop of a hat. Usually, those kinds of things don’t happen in ...

Call it a confluence of divas. Before it devolved into a pejorative for someone who can be arrogant and difficult, diva was the Latin word for “goddess” and customarily was applied to a magnificent ...

What can a great company placed in this position by idiot, philistine apparatchiks do? Well, what they can do is stage the most brilliant performance of Puccini’s warhorse that I have seen, and I’ve ...