A soft, silent snow falls from the heavens as the curtain rises on Act 2 of "Saint Francois d'Assise" at the War Memorial Opera House. It is, like so many things in Olivier Messiaen's 1983 masterwork ...

In college, I enrolled in an opera program where I was one of three women of color in the entire undergraduate vocal department. So as I sat in the audience awaiting the final preview run of “Mother ...

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Strange Trace, a new opera company in the Boston and New England area with world-wide digital reach, has released a recording of a new horror opera, The Missing Piece. The Missing Piece, was created ...

Katharina Wagner (left), great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, and her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier co-direct the Bayreuth music festival. Katharina Wagner (left), great-granddaughter of ...