New opera to be based on von Trier film
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Denmark's Royal Theater has commissioned a new opera based on Lars von Trier's 2000 film, "Dancer in the Dark."
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The Los Angeles Opera will present Richard Wagner's epic "Der Ring des Nibelungen" for the first time here, thanks to a $6 million donation from philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, the company announced Wednesday.
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The Metropolitan Opera said on  Wednesday it would broadcast six live performances to movie  theaters in North America and Europe starting on December 30 in  a bid to broaden its audience.
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The film director Anthony Minghella, who has carved out a niche adapting novels for the screen, will direct his first opera. The English National Opera in London announced that he will direct a production of Puccini&#39;s &quot;Madama Butterfly&quot; in November 2005.
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Opera is no stranger to sensitive singers and demanding divas.
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A new film, which portrays the human side of Adolf Hitler, is causing controversy in Germany.
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The Washington National Opera will simulcast a live performance of Puccini's "La Boheme" next fall to at least 17 colleges and two high schools across the country, aiming to create a new generation of artists and audiences.
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Lars von Trier&#039;s new experimental follow-up to Dogma: Three directors each film a movie starring the same characters, played by the same actors, in the same location.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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Danish director Lars von Trier, winner of the top prize at the Cannes film festival in 2000 for &quot;Dancer in the Dark&quot;, is bringing his avant-garde approach to the formulaic world of gay porn.
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The New York City Operaâs announcement this week that it had landed Gerard Mortier as its new leader was hailed as the beginning of a new era for the company.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs new strategy of plugging sudden holes in its casts with big names has its beneficiaries.
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Playbill - Sony Classical and Really Useful Records have set the release date for the original soundtrack recording of the Joel Schumacher-directed film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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The opera, as seen at Montclair State University in New Jersey, is a tunefully entertaining and thoughtful piece of theater.
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More than 30 years after his seminal  &quot;Tommy&quot; and &quot;Quadrophenia,&quot; The Who&#39;s Pete Townshend has  written a new rock opera that will be given a test run at a  theater festival in New York this weekend.
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The San Francisco Opera announced a plan to transmit operas to movie theaters using a system it says is superior to that of the Metropolitan Opera.