Should a School Shooting Be Turned Into Opera?

So I shouldn’t be troubled by the way the late Kaija Saariaho turned a fictional school shooting into a work of modernist ...

Opera in the Pines takes its audience to ‘A Masked Ball’ for its 5th anniversary production

Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) probably never visited the nation of Poland. But, next best thing, one of his ...
mlive

Local opera house to stage production 100 years in the making

HOWELL, MI - What’s about to take place inside a local opera house has not happened in more than a century. Tickets just went ...
New York Post

Opera is waging a battle to save itself in the modern world — and against self-inflicted wounds

Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know how you do it,” the tenor recently told BBC Radio 3. In the same interview, ...
The New Criterion

A contemporary horror, depicted in opera

Kaija Saariaho, a Finn, was one of the most prominent composers of our time. She died in 2023, at seventy. Last night, the ...
Phys.org

Opera is not dying, but it needs a second act for the streaming era

Every few years, you'll hear a familiar refrain: "Opera is dying." National surveys point to slumping attendance at live performances. Audiences are aging, leaving fewer fans to fill seats at ...