In the mid-1600s, opera transformed from a show exclusive for royalty to entertainment for the masses. Soon, lavish productions, special effects, and creative risks became the norm. Venice’s La Fenice ...

The 17th and 18th centuries in Europe were teeming with larger-than-life rulers. Louis XIV held court at Versailles, Dresden and Poland were ruled by Augustus the Strong, and Frederick the Great ...

Opera today launched its subscription-based, AI-focused Neon browser, which joins a growing field of companies touting agentic browsing capabilities. Opera first previewed Neon in May and is now ...

Opera remains a hot topic not only as a genre of music but more specifically when looking into its origins. To fully appreciate the languages that opera is sung in, a brief survey of its history I ...

Opera is resurrecting Opera Neon, a browser concept first introduced in 2017, and equipping it with the latest tech trend: agentic AI—an assistant you can assign tasks to, which it will carry out ...

“Hopefully we see the Met thriving artistically, and that we will have created a new artistic foundation that will help it continue to grow,” Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb told the New ...

February has been packed with enough chamber operas to form a de facto festival, tackling the issues of the day. Long Beach Opera’s Pauline Oliveros production featured what surely will go down as one ...

Widely renowned for fueling the resurrection of Handel’s operas, City Opera continues its exploration of the Baroque by presenting the New York premiere of Georg Philipp Telemann’s 1726 opera Orpheus.

Ryan Brown, founder and artistic director of Opera Lafayette — the highly regarded presenter of baroque and classical operas with a chamber orchestra of period instruments — will speak at The ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...