Despite Drastic Financial Steps, Met Opera Turns to Layoffs and Cuts

The largest performing arts organization in the country will lay off workers, cut salaries and reduce its offerings. It may ...

A New Year, A Renewed Call to Protect Opera

Opera’s Vanishing Voices” Challenges Perceptions of Cost and Access While Rallying Global Audiences to Celebrate a ...

Opera is not dying, but it needs a second act for the streaming era

Although opera companies are experiencing financial stress, opera isn't a dying art form. Instead, I found that the public's ...
Inside Higher Ed

Opera and the quest for a great democratic art.

Playful and satirical, the Marx Brothers’ 1935 A Night at the Opera pokes fun at opera’s elitism while celebrating its spectacle, capturing the era’s ambivalence toward “high” art forms seen as both ...
Colorado Public Radio

Opera Colorado has a new CEO. Here’s how she plans to bring the art to a modern audience

Barbara Lynne Jamison recently began her tenure as the Ellie Caulkins general director and CEO, where she will shape the future of Opera Colorado. For the past seven years, she served as General ...

Pittsburgh Opera announces appointment of new general director

The Pittsburgh Opera announced Tuesday that it will enter a fresh chapter with new general director William Powers, who will ...

An in-house orchestra and Art Deco vision shape Florida Grand Opera's ‘Die Fledermaus'

For Florida Grand Opera, a new era is underway as artistic director Maria Todaro vows to keep her promise that she's not ...
90.5 WESA

Pittsburgh Opera names new general director

William Powers, currently executive director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, will replace Christopher Hahn as the ...

In a digital era, the ancient art of Peking opera works hard to stay relevant

Young Peking opera artists are devoting years to mastering its demanding techniques, hoping to win over today's audiences ...