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David Bennett, the executive director of Gotham Chamber Opera in New York, will take over in San Diego, which nearly shut down last year.
President of the board of the Metropolitan Opera announces resignation in leadership change.
The tenor has withdrawn from Saturday's matinee of "Carmen" at the Metropolitan Opera, citing illness.
Mr. Kaufmann canceled his first scheduled performance as Don José on Wednesday because he was suffering from the flu, the Metropolitan Opera announced.
The upÂ-andÂ-coming soprano sings an excerpt from Micaëla's aria.
The weather forecasts were alarming, but in the end it was the decision by city and state officials to shut down virtually all means of transportation in New York City at 11 p.m. that forced…
To open the season, Plácido Domingo will sing the title role in Puccini's one-act opera "Gianni Schicchi" and then, after the intermission, move down to the orchestra pit to conduct Leonc…
A group bidding for the assets of the bankrupt New York City Opera is using a name that already belongs to another opera company.
The board of the bankrupt New York City Opera says it wants to sell its name and other assets to the bidder whose offer is lower than the competing bid.
A $5 million gift will help Juilliard students prepare for their professional careers.
The $50,000 William Schuman Award recognizes "the lifetime achievement of an American composer."
San Francisco Opera's 2015-16 season will be the last under its transformative general director, David Gockley, who plans to retire.
The soprano Danielle de Niese sings the Bach-Gounod setting of "Ave Maria," which she will perform on Christmas Eve at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
New productions of Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" and Handel's "Alcina" will be among the highlights of this summer's Aix-en-Provence Festival, the festival announced this week.
An all-star tribute to Julius Rudel, the music director who helped build New York City Opera and led it during its glory years, is set for March.
A performance of "Go Away," from Ms. Soper's 2011 piece "Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say."
Thanks to a legal settlement, plans to build an opera house and performance space in Switzerland have been reinvigorated.
The young Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva is replacing Marina Poplavskaya in the role of Violetta, an unusual high-profile switch.
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" has long attracted composers seeking to turn it into something rich and strange, and Gotham Chamber Opera announced Friday that it would team up with the Martha G…
The three-week season will be the first one programmed by Lawrence Edelson, who became the artistic and general manager in January.
Carnegie Hall will offer free live webcasts of its concert presentations for the first time later this year, it plans to announce on Thursday " streaming four big classical music concerts in…
Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes will retire near the end of American Ballet Theater's 2015 season.
Stanley Romanstein resigned his position as president and chief executive of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which is in the midst of a labor lockout.
Presenters of the Bach "St. Matthew Passion" at Lincoln Center's White Light Festival have come up with an unusual way to expand their audience " and sell more tickets: they are opening the …
The next season, running from March 11 through March 29, will feature old and new works by Mr. Taylor, as well as works by Doris Humphrey and Shen Wei.
