Andrew Kurtz has opera roots. He attended his first opera at the age of 10. His first job was for a professional opera ...
This season’s Santa Fe Opera world premiere, “M. Butterfly” by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang, is an absorbing new incarnation of Mr. Hwang’s 1988 hit play, which was drawn from the true story of a ...
Kangmin Justin Kim as Song Liling in "M. Butterfly." (Curtis Brown for the Santa Fe Opera) When you see the title “M. Butterfly,” you might think it means Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly.” ...
With radical adaptations of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and Puccini’s “Tosca,” Heartbeat Opera shows why it’s so vital to New York’s music scene. By Oussama Zahr Heartbeat Opera, a small, nimble company that ...
For Waldyn Benbenek, it all started with a poster he saw stapled to a south Minneapolis telephone pole in the summer of 1979. It offered an invitation to meet in the basement of a home in Minneapolis' ...
Robert Larsen, driven by his love for opera, founded the Des Moines Metro Opera in Indianola, Iowa in 1973. Larsen's ambitious leadership and dedication built the opera from a small-town production to ...
We invite you to tune in at 9 p.m. New York time to this episode of Songs from the Santa Fe Opera, hosted by tenor Joshua Dennis, who was engaged to sing the role of Marc, and will feature a ...
On Friday evening November 8 at 6 PM Arizona Opera gave its second Marion Roose Pullin Opera Studio Artists' Recital for a small socially distanced audience in attendance and its many followers online ...