The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

Yuval Sharon will leave the financially strained Detroit Opera after this season. In March, he brings his unorthodox vision ...

Traffic stops and hallways clear as the diva arrives, her attendants escorting her backstage ahead of her rendition of the role ...

Acclaimed singer Sir Donald McIntyre has died. According to Opera Wire, the bass-baritone singer passed away on Nov. 13 at age 91. Born in Auckland, New Zealand on Oct. 22, 1934, McIntyre studied at ...

The Atlanta Opera Film Studio has released three new cinematic opera films adapted from the company’s acclaimed stage productions of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Produced by The Atlanta Opera’s Carl W ...

Classical music is strapped for cash and moral support – yet the creativity and determination in the face of that deserves ...

“So slow,” remarked an audience member as he exited the hall after Act I of Matthew Ozawa’s fanciful but rather guileless new production of Richard Wagner’s final opera. A soulful meditation on the ...

It’s official — San Francisco Opera is bringing back The Ring. Richard Wagner’s monumental four-part, 15-hour opera cycle will return to the War Memorial Opera House in June 2028. Directed by ...

Ever since Music Director Eun Sun Kim and the San Francisco Opera first announced a multiyear plan for her to conduct one of Wagner's works in each season, it's been understood that the project would ...

The four-part cycle—Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung—will be performed in three complete cycles from June 13–July 2, 2028, with pre-cycle performances of individual operas ...

The San Francisco Opera has announced plans for the Company’s upcoming presentation of Richard Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung (Der Ring des Nibelungen).” The company noted that it will present the ...