Khayakazi Madlala hails from Matatiele in South Africa's Eastern Cape. She received her training at the Gauteng Opera Academy under Marcus Desando and Emma Renzi, and at the NWU Conservatory with ...

He then makes a quick getaway, leaving the company to soldier on. The anarchic climax comes in a Milan performance of L’opera seria, Bohemian composer Florian Leopold Gassmann’s riotous 1769 ...

The company said that Joyce El-Khoury will be stepping into the role of Manon Lescaut on April 17, 20, and 24 for Ermonela Jaho. This season El-Khoury performed at the Opera Comique and Opera de Rouen ...

UPDATE, with statement from ‘Fellow Travelers‘ team: The composer, lyricist, director and producer of Fellow Travelers, an opera based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel about the anti-gay ...

The center’s opera company and orchestra are planning typical seasons. But one opera was withdrawn from the lineup by the artists who created it, who objected to the president’s takeover.

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Life, they say, begins at forty, which is precisely the age of Andrei Serban's version of Turandot for the Royal Opera. This meticulously ... director Jack Furness. Puccini appropriately added ...

“The National Theatre has returned repeatedly to the story of Manon Lescaut through dance, opera, and dramatic theatre. Different renditions yield different interpretations. However, all of our ...

Featuring the ever-popular ‘Nessun dorma’, this opera of love and revenge is brought to life in a dazzling production. It will be sung in Italian with subtitles and it will run for 205 minutes ...

A mother and grandmother in Cape May, New Jersey, are facing charges after authorities say a child suffered abuse from being forced to wear a dog shock collar. Kimberly Cruz-Feliciano, 30 ...

During the centenary of Puccini’s death, both Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theater have offered revues where greatest-hits arias and scenes were juxtaposed alongside lesser-known items. Thus it fell ...

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