Ex-Monty Python star puts on opera
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Terry Jones giggles as he describes his latest project: vacuum cleaners, dryers and parking meters singing opera on stage.
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Luciano Pavarotti, perhaps the most famous opera singer ever, died on Thursday morning, aged 71.
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This is Welsh National Opera's big chance. Fifty-nine years after its birth, as the brilliant artistic reputation that it enjoyed in the 1980s falters along with attendances, the company has moved into a new ...
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The Bachchan baritone is all set to boom on the famous game show all over again.
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Luciano Pavarotti, long a giant in the opera world, has signed a contract for a 40-date worldwide farewell tour.
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By David Whetstone  First-rate opera made in the region. That's the prospect this week as Sir Thomas Allen directs Don Giovanni at The Sage Gateshead. David Whetstone reports.
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Vivica Genaux, an international star, particularly in the early-music world, is making her return to New York opera.
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Russell Braun as Figaro, the multitasking barber of Seville, at the Metropolitan Opera House. (Credit: Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times) Before I reveal the Figaro Factotum regimen for greater personal productivity, let me explain how it came about. Maintaining a blog while doing other things has reminded me of how bad I am [...].
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When the BBC recently announced it would air "Jerry Springer: The Opera," the West End hit famous for its vulgarity and a cast of characters including transsexuals and a man wearing a diaper, no one batted an ...
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We asked the British actor what he's reading, watching, and listening to.
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Opera is not an art form that particularly appeals to today&#39;s youth. But, what if you turned an opera into a flashmob event? TV network BBC3 is going to try it, springing a live performance on unsuspecting
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Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell will be the celebrity invitee at Vienna's Opera Ball next month, Austrian property tycoon Richard Lugner announced.
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Television broadcasts of opera have been around for a long time and have done much to demystify the art form. Still, itâs mostly recorded opera broadcasts that are seen on television these days.
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A controversial new opera about Libya's  flamboyant leader Muammar Gaddafi blasted opera buffs out of  their seats at its world premiere, but music critics asked --  Where was the singing?
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Ian Rankin may be best known for his Inspector Rebus mysteries. Alexander McCall Smith, right, may be best known for chronicling the exploits of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. So what have they been up to lately? Writing 15-minute operas. They are participants in âFive:15,â a Scottish Opera initiative intended to attract young audiences by joining authors and composers like Craig Armstrong (âLove Actuallyâ) to create 15-minute operas. The results range from Mr. Rankinâs âGesualdo,â about the murderous 16th-century composer Carlo Gesualdo, to âQueens of Govan,â about a 15-year-old girl who works in a kebab shop in a gritty Glasgow neighborhood, The Independent of London reported. Mr. McCall Smithâs work is based on âDream Angus,â his collection of Celtic myths. The five operas will be presented in March in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The performances are sold out.
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Performances from New York's famous Metropolitan Opera are to be broadcast live on satellite radio.
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The English National Opera gives unprecedented access to its latest production of Carmen on the web.