While opera remains the most acquired of the classical music tastes, opera overtures are pretty easy to digest. Some opera overtures are known to many who don’t consider themselves to be classical ...

Sir Karl Jenkins celebrates his 75th birthday with a new piano album of his best-loved works and two new compositions. The pieces, performed by Sir Karl himself, are the first chance we have had to ...

If at first you don't succeed, keep writing opera overtures. That's what Beethoven did. He composed a total of four overtures for the same opera. One of his early attempts is called the "Leonore ...

Shining examples of Verdi's orchestral writing from his mammoth operatic output, performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala and Riccardo Chailly. Drive Featured Album, 4 February 2013. Opera ...

You have to hand it to Don Juan; the dude was quite a hit with the ladies. And when the Madison Opera took up his cause in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” this weekend, the legendary libertine showed why.

Madison Opera will debut its first-ever production of Maria de Buenos Aires this Friday at the Overture Center for the Arts. Maria de Buenos Aires was first produced at the theater Sala La Planeta in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato. By Thomas May ...

The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera announces the launch of OVERTURE, a new young professionals group aimed at cultivating a vibrant and engaged community of young professionals who are passionate about ...