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Chicago’s inaugural poet laureate makes his Lyric mainstage debut with, “safronia,” loosely based on his family’s own Great ...

Vilma Jää never expected to play a major role in one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed operas when she enrolled at the ...

Released in March, the new sci-fi flick 'Project Hail Mary' features Puerto Rican puppeteer James Ortiz, who stars opposite ...

When Travis Hall was a teenager, he hid his voice in a hoodie. Singing in the choir at Cedar Grove High School, he would wear ...

The Turn of the Screw at the Royal Opera House review: commanding and unsettling - 4/5 Claustrophobia and menace run rampant ...

To be an opera singer is to master a new, specialized vocal technique that differs from traditional singing styles. It requires an amplified voice, but one that is amplified without the use of ...

The Met has announced the winners of the 2026 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition: sopranos Shannon Crowley, Elizabeth Hanje, Song Hee Lee, and Anna Thompson; and baritones ...

Laffont Competition Grand Finals Winners Gabriel Natal-Báez, Elizabeth Hanje, Song Hee Lee, Shannon Crowley, Robert Wente, and Anna Thompson. (Natalie Powers / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera has ...

Rainelle Krause, a rising opera singer from Illinois, has died after a short hospitalisation, her family confirmed. The family issued a public statement to announce her death, but they have not ...

Rainelle Krause has died following a short hospitalization. The 37-year-old was a coloratura soprano known for her portrayal of the Queen of the Night (Die Königin der Nacht) in The Magic Flute (Die ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Davidsen, who has returned triumphantly to the Met in “Tristan und Isolde,” said that singing “has been my world, my everything. And now it’s not.” Credit...Amir Hamja for The ...