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Karen O Working on a "Psycho-Opera"

Karen O started her world takeover with the the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and she’s moving to the stage next....  read more

Bill Clinton's Teen Years Turned Into An Opera

Bill Clinton can’t escape the spotlight. A folk opera about the former president’s formative years in the South premiered over the weekend....  read more

3-D Takes the Stage at the Metropolitan Opera

Not to be left out of the ubiquitous 3-D trend in cinema, The Metropolitan Opera plans to use projections for it’s production of Siegfried next season. These productions will create the optical illusion without the need for those awkward glasses....  read more

John Malkovich Starring as Casanova in European Touring Opera

Sure, you've seen him act, but have you seen him sing Mozart in the role of a famous womanizer?  read more

The Booky Man: The Fellowship of the Reads

Opera seems an unlikely portal to a new column on books. Still, a recent evening at an Atlanta production of The Elixir of Love, Donizetti’s long and silly little love song, left me thinking more of reading and readers than of bel canto, lovely as it is. As a writer, observance is blessing and curse at once. Forget immersion in most any moment—lovemaking, gardening, sports events: The Writer perversely takes notes in the midst of overwhelming pleasures and the humdrum alike. How pretty her eyelashes. The earth feels warm here, like freshly baked bread. Fourth and goal, why is Saban...  read more

Twitter: The Opera is a Real Thing That's Actually Happening

@Radames Slavery sux, u should ditch Pharaoh. g2g my dad's here #niledeltaOK, a real Twitter opera will probably look nothing like that, but that doesn't mean the Royal Opera House of London (pictured above) isn't doing it anyway. Yes, that's right, they're creating an opera composed entirely of storyline suggestions sent to their Twitter account. More than 350 people have contributed so far....  read more

Former Football Player Now Member of New York Metropolitan Opera

During his days as a football player (first at the University of Colorado, then in Finland and finally with the Arena Football League), Keith Miller didn't listen to stereotypical motivation music. While teammates spent locker-room sessions jamming to hip-hop and metal, Miller confesses that was never his scene. "I used to listen to the 'Queen of the Night' aria before games," he told The Savannah Morning News. This interest has evolved considerably since those days and has become a new career for the former fullback. Miller studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, and he's now a member...  read more

Manchester International Festival: Rufus Wainwright's opera Prima Donna

There's always been hints of the operatic in the music of Rufus Wainwright—the emotive crooning, the vocal gymnastics on his most epic tunes and, of course, the penchant for the melodramatic. But tonight marked his debut as an actual opera composer at the world premiere of Prima Donna—part of the Manchester International Festival. ...  read more

Mozart's Cosi fan tutte gets modern with text messaging

We really probably shouldn't be surprised, considering it seems no one is safe from the pervasive power of technology nowadays. No, not even you, opera. In an unprecedented level of technological integration, the New York Times reports that Underworld Productions Opera Ensemble has decided to embrace the age of the cell phone and allow theatregoers to vote via text on the outcome of a modernized version of Cosi fan tutte....  read more

Philip Glass says hi-ho to opera about Walt Disney

What to do with three Academy Award nominations, eight symphonies and a swathe of film scores and solo works under your belt? For esteemed classical composer Philip Glass, the next logical step would naturally be an opera about the life of Walt Disney, right? So it's no surprise, then, that he was commissioned to do just that....  read more