Opera singer Placido Domingo is being accused of sexual harassment, inappropriate and sexually charged behavior and sometimes damaging women's careers if they rejected him. By The Associated Press The ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by During a break at the Royal Opera House, Aigul Akhmetshina discussed her action-packed career, “Carmen” and her mission to spread her love of opera.

Papicha' director Mounia Meddour is making a new film about the lyrical singer Malika Bellaribi, starring Lilya Adad, Elsa ...

Renowned soprano Pumeza Matshikiza steps off the stage and into advocacy, using her art and influence to fight child abuse ...

Surrounded by a lifetime's worth of globe-trotting photographs, glimmering awards and glamorous gowns, including an elegant Japanese kimono, Leona Mitchell couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed.

Netrebko has become something of a pariah for her past associations with Vladimir Putin. (Pictured with the Russian president in 2008) - Dmitry Lovetsky/AP Photo Tonight is the biggest night in the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Add Mary Cardwell Dawson’s name to the list of “hidden figures” of Black history who are hidden no more. Dawson, who grew up in North Carolina amid the Jim Crow era, founded the ...

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The Metropolitan Opera House with American Ballet Theater banner. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City. (Ajay Suresh/Wikimedia Commons) MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal judge is allowing ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oksana Lyniv, Speranza Scappucci, Marin Alsop and Xian Zhang filled their lockers in the guest conductors’ dressing room off the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra pit. Just four women had ...

In opera, gender plays several roles at once. For composers, it’s a fundamental organizing principle, with vocal ranges clearly delineated on either side of the fence — you’ve got your countertenors, ...

In Montgomery, Alabama, a statue of Rosa Parks stands just blocks from the State Capitol. At her feet, granite markers memorialize four other women, but the monument offers little else about them.