Soprano Lucy Shelton has premiered more than 100 new works in a decades-long career as a concert and recital artist. "I haven't spent my time as an opera singer," Shelton, 80, explained in a video ...

Paul Groves was a child when he first heard that classic, mournful tenor aria usually sung by a clown on opera stages. The song — specifically one of its passages — is usually recognized even by those ...

This post was updated May 18 at 8:47 p.m. A Hollywood story is being told in a new way with an opera’s West Coast premiere. A production of composer Tod Machover’s piece “Schoenberg in Hollywood” will ...

Kazimierz A Story of Love and Destiny, an opera in one act. This joyful Celebration of Life, Love, Fate and Destiny, is Thrilling Audiences with its inspiring melodies, philosophy and emotional ...

Editor's note: The New Orleans performance of "Morgiane" has been rescheduled to Friday, Jan. 24. By 1887, New Orleans-born violinist Edmond Dédé was an established composer and conductor living in ...

On June 19, 1865, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which he read , officially announcing enslaved people were free. Since then, June 19 has ...

Opera Saratoga came to the Brookside Museum in Ballston Spa on Saturday to entertain a sold-out crowd with “Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Nina in El Mundo.” The 45-minute musical drama is part of the ...

It's an extraordinary piece for the Broadway of its time. Credited with being the first “concept musical”, it frames its story as a piece of vaudeville (by 1948 already a thing of the past), with a ...

Composer Laura Kaminsky's intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old soprano Lucy Shelton,... Soprano Lucy Shelton has premiered more than 100 new ...