Opera is a vocally-driven performing art. But this past Tuesday, Ellen Hargis—a “Baroque-music diva” according to The New Yorker—proved that sleight of hand can improve even the most skilled voices.

This week, Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, co-founders of Toronto's Opera Atelier, will be at Penn State University, leading master classes on Baroque operatic technique. A few weeks ...

German countertenor Nils Wanderer makes his Met debut in Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz’s opera, “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,” streaming Live in HD to cinemas aro ...

Hercules has fallen in love with his son's lover and refuses to accept her rejection... Venetian composer Antonia Bembo’s opera is a baroque jewel from a little-known female composer, written in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As they have for decades, 19th-century warhorses like “La Bohème” and “Carmen” still dominate opera- house marquees. But just as today’s diners are ...

"DE FACTO, there has been little baroque opera performed in Slovakia," said Martin Bendik, dramaturge with the Slovak National Theatre.The causes are the staging specifications and demanding ...

Nicholas Garza (Damon), far-left, Alex Longnecker (Acis) and Gitanjali Mathur (Galatea) far-right, during a production of Handel's 'Acis and Galatea' by the American Baroque Opera Company, on Saturday ...

It was during the Paul Kellogg era of the nineties and the aughts that New York City Opera became a force for Baroque opera—specifically works by Handel, which, with their historical-mythical plots ...

The opera is based on the myth in Virgil's "Aeneid%2C"of star-crossed lovers who come to tragic ends. Bourbon Baroque leaders knew Purcell's opera could showcase many different arts disciplines. Clark ...

San Diego Opera won’t be announcing its next season until May, but two of the city’s smaller companies — Opera Neo and newly formed Opera a la Carte San Diego — have unveiled their upcoming plans, and ...