A New Year, A Renewed Call to Protect Opera

Opera’s Vanishing Voices” Challenges Perceptions of Cost and Access While Rallying Global Audiences to Celebrate a ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Confronting Opera as an “Inherently Colonialist Art Form,” Yuval Sharon Brings New Work to L.A.

The renowned opera director and founder of The Industry is premiering 'The Comet / Poppea,' a mash-up of Monteverdi and a short story by W.E.B. Du Bois, at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary. By Jordan Riefe ...
Capital Gazette

Out of the ashes: Maryland Opera resurrects ‘Carmen’ — and an art form

Nina Evelyn Anderson grew up singing in her church, honoring God with her soulful soprano. Her choir teacher at Howard High School told the poised young woman she was talented. But Anderson didn’t ...

‘Sweat and tears’: a Peking opera actress’s dedication to the Chinese art form

Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting performs poses that can take months to perfect, and leave more than a few bruises.
Inside Higher Ed

Opera and the quest for a great democratic art.

Playful and satirical, the Marx Brothers’ 1935 A Night at the Opera pokes fun at opera’s elitism while celebrating its spectacle, capturing the era’s ambivalence toward “high” art forms seen as both ...
The New York Times

Protecting Opera, ‘a People’s Art Form’

An American soprano who sang when the United States rejoined UNESCO weighed in on the agency’s addition of Italian opera singing to a heritage list. By Farah Nayeri Is opera an endangered art form ...
Bay Area Reporter

Yuval Sharon's 'A New Philosophy of Opera' - New insights on the venerable art form

Ideas tumble out and collide in Yuval Sharon's "A New Philosophy of Opera" (Liveright). The out American director, deemed a maverick by many, steps off stage to deliver his manifesto about keeping ...

How Peking opera actors train for decades and never stop practising their art

Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting, currently appearing in The Masked Heroine, started training in the art form in her ...
Salon

Opera on the brink: Can new compositions return the art to its popular roots?

On January 2, 1958, a minor official at the Rome Opera House bore the thankless task of announcing bad news to the audience: Maria Callas had left the building. The legendary soprano, stricken by ...