At the end of June, opera music will echo through the Colorado Foothills as Central City Opera starts its 2025 Festival. Central City Opera was founded in 1932, making it the fifth oldest professional ...
Director Melanie Helton’s key to MSU Opera Theatre's production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is bold color. As she has studied the opera, Helton said she feels the opera’s themes of good and evil, ...
‘I Pagliacci,” Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s tragic tale of adultery and revenge set to glorious music, remains one of the most popular operas since its 1892 premiere. Still, a new adaptation enjoys all ...
On January 2, 1958, a minor official at the Rome Opera House bore the thankless task of announcing bad news to the audience: Maria Callas had left the building. The legendary soprano, stricken by ...