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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW HAVEN >> Regular opera can be intimidating to outsiders, until they embrace its great singing, music, drama, comedy and spectacle. But baroque opera? That sounds more obscure and divorced from ...

With a voice of angelic purity, halo of frizzy hair and girlish sweet smile, Emma Kirkby has been a kind of fairy princess of the early music movement since she first dropped in on it in the early ...