This year’s event took place on January 25 and 26th and featured five teams. On Friday night, composers and lyricists (librettists) were randomly paired and given 12 hours to compose 7-to-10 minute ...

--Over a span of about 30 years, the composer Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti wrote 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets and dozens of other songs, sonatas and such. "That just blows my mind, ...

Trying to understand the depth of opera in one class can be daunting for anybody. Carolina D'Souza gives it a try. Opera for Dummies, the book and the idea, has been exhausted. Yet I find myself ...

The shortened version of La Bohème was staged for the first time in Perugia: it lasts ninety minutes instead of two hours and forty minutes. The new format is the idea of tenor Gianluca Terranova, who ...