Los Angeles Opera began last week with the Pulitzer Prize announcement that “Omar,” the acclaimed new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, was being honored as the year’s best musical ...

The Metropolitan Opera is poised to make a big change to its production of Verdi's Otello when the fall season opens next month. It says it will be dropping the blackface-style makeup worn by the ...

The one rocky moment in Opera North’s new production of Otello comes in the opening minutes; Verdi’s storm-tossed prelude blasts out gloriously, the huge ensemble cast enter and stare boldly out into ...

Verdi's opera "Otello" is based on Shakespeare’s play about a North African general who becomes a war hero and tries to fit into high — white — society in Venice. It is renowned for its challenging ...

Opera companies worldwide revere Giuseppe Verdi's adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Othello." Yet they rarely perform it. The story of a war hero tricked into thinking his wife is unfaithful, ...

In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, our light-hearted intro to the upcoming opera broadcast, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric discuss Giuseppe Verdi’s penultimate opera, Otello, the second ...

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