Growing up, you couldn't have paid me to go to the opera. I couldn't stand classical music. It was loud and screechy, and I couldn't understand why anyone would like it. The mere fact that those who ...

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Opera Omaha opens its 57th season this weekend with Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” probably as good a show as any to launch a season dubbed “Opera Unbound.” “Rigoletto,” based on a Victor Hugo play, tells the ...

Wow, who’d a thunk it? In spite of all the dire signs of opera’s impending demise (right along with its aging audiences), Chicago’s 2024 fall season got off to an impressively rousing start at Lyric ...

The Italian baritone Paolo Gavanelli has joined this spring’s Dallas Opera performance of Verdi’s Rigeletto. Having performed the role more than 200 times, the star doesn’t just have critical acclaim ...