Los Angeles Opera began last week with the Pulitzer Prize announcement that “Omar,” the acclaimed new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, was being honored as the year’s best musical ...

The Metropolitan Opera is poised to make a big change to its production of Verdi's Otello when the fall season opens next month. It says it will be dropping the blackface-style makeup worn by the ...

Verdi's opera "Otello" is based on Shakespeare’s play about a North African general who becomes a war hero and tries to fit into high — white — society in Venice. It is renowned for its challenging ...

In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, our light-hearted intro to the upcoming opera broadcast, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric discuss Giuseppe Verdi’s penultimate opera, Otello, the second ...

The Metropolitan Opera will debut a fresh face in its season-opening production of Verdi’s “Otello” in September. For the first time on the famed New York stage, the actor who portrays the work’s ...

Verdi's Otello boils down Shakespeare's play to its essentials and what it lacks in poetry it more than makes up for in music says Sameer Rahim. Aleksandrs Antonenko as Otello and Anja Harteros as ...

The one rocky moment in Opera North’s new production of Otello comes in the opening minutes; Verdi’s storm-tossed prelude blasts out gloriously, the huge ensemble cast enter and stare boldly out into ...

The 2nd Opera Days project, which for several days presented audiences with outstanding examples of world and Azerbaijani ...

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