Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a ...

Long Beach Opera embarks on a risky, unprecedented season centered on pioneering composer Pauline Oliveros. "We’re just going ...

When San Francisco Opera opens its 2025-26 season on Sept. 5 with Verdi’s masterpiece “Rigoletto,” it will represent the ...

Edmond Dédé composed Morgiane 138 years ago, but his racial identity prevented the opera from receiving proper staging.

With tensions running high over the war in Gaza, a new opera and a movie are looking back on the moment when Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Games. By Adam Sella Reporting from Berlin ...

San Francisco Opera has announced details for the Company's 2025–26 Season. The Company's 103rd season, which marks Shilvock's tenth as general director, kicks off September 5.

On a whim 25 years ago, Guyana native Jonnet Solomon purchased the building that once housed the National Negro Opera Company ...

Long-awaited production of “The Monkey King,” adapted by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang from the classic 16th-century ...

While the building has been stabilized, the National Opera House nonprofit is still working to obtain funding for a full ...

They were the first to hear composer Edmond Dédé’s opera “Morgiane” – the earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American – more than century after he composed the opus.

“La Traviata”: Armenian soprano Mané Galoyan will be featured as Violetta, the tragic heroine of this Verdi opera, Nov. 8-16. Tenor Long Long, last seen in Atlanta Opera’s “La Bohème” in 2024, sings ...

Peregrine falcons have long nested beneath the Fruitvale Train Bridge, hunting local terns and raising their young. One ...