opera

Today on Louisiana Considered, we speak with acclaimed operatic tenor and New Orleans native Jamez McCorkle. Also, the Marigny Opera Ballet is under new leadership. We chat with executive director Evan Hammond as the company prepares for its 2023-2024 season.

This week on Inside the Arts, Bryan Hymel’s Opus Opera opens its Spring season with an original interpretation of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. We talk with…

I crashed an opera rehearsal the other day. A large group of vocalists, young, old, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, all the genders, belted out in long…

Since the end of the 1700s, opera has been a cultural touchstone in New Orleans. Here to tell us a little bit about the operatic history of the city is…

The influential American composer John Adams turned 70 earlier this year.As a student, I had the pleasure of meeting Adams when he was teaching at Harvard…

The 2015-16 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season – the company’s 85th on the air – begins with a live broadcast of the beloved Puccini opera, La…

The 2014-15 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a live broadcast of Humperdinck’sHansel and Gretel. The performance, sung in English…

The 2014-15 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a live broadcast of Verdi’s La Traviata on WWNO HD-2. Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka,…

The New Orleans Opera Association’s season continues this weekend with Rusalka, a work from 1900 by Antonín Dvořák, one of America’s favorite…

This week on Inside the Arts, we tickle your funny bone as art and politics collide in playwright Lee Blessings' Chesapeake, a parody on the funding of…