Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is retiring from the stage after a last performance as Maria in the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera, and looking ahead to directing and mentoring.

Graves, who gave her last performance on Saturday at the Met, talks about “Carmen,” the doctor who told her she would never ...

Pittsburgh Opera will present the world premiere of TIME TO ACT, a new opera by composer Laura Kaminsky and librettist ...

The production team behind Bizet’s "Carmen" at the Metropolitan Opera has demanded their names be stripped from programmes.

In 2021, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) launched a five-year initiative, “As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage”, spotlighting Black composers and featuring five operas ...

The Metropolitan Opera in New York presented the first excerpt from the opera The Mothers of Kherson on Monday 2 June. The production tells the story of deported children and their mothers who set out ...

One opera is good. Three are better. That's what audiences will experience when Houston Grand Opera presents the full trilogy of Giacomo Puccini's "Il Trittico," running Thursday through Nov. 14 at ...

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, one of the world’s preeminent artist-development programs, has revealed that applications are now open for its 2026/27 ...