Most would find it surprising that The Metropolitan Opera Management sued to have their own opera house razed, but that is exactly what happened in the mid-1960s. The Metropolitan Opera ...

Early operas tell the story of Greek drama and were sung in Italian. Italian dominated the musical form until the 18th Century. By this time composers across Europe, such as Henry Purcell ...

Opera GX, Opera's gaming browser ... specifically with a community angle, reminds me of those early days of 2000s mobile phones—the joy of downloading super low-resolution wallpapers to display ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the symphonies of the early-twentieth-century Black composer Florence Price. The National Symphony did the same for the modernist George Walker. The Metropolitan ...

Verdi's early operas, such as Nabucco, were hymns to national independence. This may have made items like the Chorus of Hebrew Slaves especially popular with Welsh choirs! Today the situation has ...

Sadie Cheslak, a 2013 Duluth East graduate now based in Chicago, was one of five singers awarded $20,000 prizes in the ...

In his early operas Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va ...