Massive mirror onstage sheds new light on an old favorite, Chen Nan reports.

Italian tenor Riccardo Massi has rapidly achieved international recognition as one of the most exciting and accomplished ...

Photographer Gérard Uféras has been granted full access to the La Scala ballet corps’ backstage over six years to produce a ...

Headliners including Jane Goodall, Brian May, Pablo Álvarez, Glenn Hughes, Jorge Drexler, and many more will celebrate ...

After 138 years, what is thought to be the earliest existing opera by a Black American composer is finally getting its world premiere. A concert opera performance of Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane ...

Experts think it could be the oldest existing opera written by a Black American composer. Now, nearly 125 years after Dédé’s death, Morgiane will finally have its premiere. Staged by ...

Morgiane, ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan, a grand opera composed in 1887 by Edmond Dédé, a black, free-born New Orleans native based in France, is a case in point. Meticulously preserved in a handwritten ...

Edmond Dédé, a fourth-generation free Black man born in Louisiana in 1827, wrote the opera in 1887 in France, where he lived and worked as a composer for most of his career. D.C.’s Opera ...

There he had more freedom of movement as a Black man living in pre-Civil War United States. In France, he also gained popularity as a composer and music conductor. But for unknown reasons, the opera ...

Giuseppe Verdi spent his last Christmas and saw in his last New Year ... He could no longer take the long walks he loved, though a late photograph caught him in his black overcoat and top hat one day, ...

Lise Davidson appears during a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's La Forza del Destino at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. on Feb. 20, 2024. (Karen Almond via AP) ...