Back in May, Blake Shelton returned to his roots, dropping his first album in four years, the winkingly titled For ...

For half a century, Opera Ebony has been one of the guiding lights for Black performers looking to make their mark on the opera world. Born out of a necessity to develop talent often overlooked, the ...

I may be cancelled for saying so, but the West End's longest running musical, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, would make Puccini proud ...

This Spanish pop star’s new album is being advertised as symphonic and operatic. Its music borrows from both, without ...

This past week, the Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía dropped “Berghain,” the lead single from her new fourth studio album ...

With her emotion-evoking operatic range and soprano heights, Dominican opera singer Zuly Inirio is challenging whose voice is embodied and heard throughout the genre. She first saw an opera — “La ...

If it were any lighter, “The Elixir of Love” would probably float merrily right off the stage. But maybe this is exactly what opera fans need right now: buoyant comic relief and joyous singing in a ...

In 2008, conductor and University of Chicago alum Jeri Lynne Johnson founded the Philadelphia-based Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra. The ensemble was designed to be a model for twenty-first-century ...

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.” The opening words of Macbeth’s famous soliloquy come to life this weekend as three performances of a combined opera, ballet and classical music production based ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 14, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is a conductor operating at triple tempo, at once the director of ...

Fans of music from centuries past will find a wide variety of experiences and collections. One even comes with a side of rock ’n’ roll. By Farah Nayeri Reporting from London Have you ever wondered ...

Some years, it feels like when we get to the beginning of the new culture season, classical music hits the snooze button and doesn’t really get rolling until late September or October. It doesn’t stop ...