Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet.

David Edward Byrd, an artist whose swirling, psychedelic, instantly entrancing illustrations gave the rock mecca Fillmore ...

The artistic director of the George Enescu International Festival, maestro Cristian Măcelaru, proposes for the concert series ...

The first African American to play the lead role in “Carmen” at the Sydney Opera House is shifting away from her roots to ...

Olga James, the "Carmen Jones" singer, actress and night club performer, died in Los Angeles of complications from a fall.

She also starred on Broadway alongside Sammy Davis Jr. in ‘Mr. Wonderful’ and was married to famed musicians Cannonball ...

Opera aficionados recommend listening to clips of the opera online via YouTube, Spotify or other sites beforehand.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that actress Olga James, star of the film adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones, ...

when he was 16. He attended Eastside High School and was directed toward opera by a teacher after he performed Jud Fry in “Oklahoma!” Plishka majored in music at Montclair State College and ...

ARIANA MATER, the opera by Kaija Saariaho, who died last summer at 70, won this year's Grammy for Best Opera Recording, for ...

Soprano Michelle Mariposa, tenor Angel Gomez and soprano Kresley Figueroa shared top prize at the Middle Atlantic regionals, ...