NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Springsteen, Hugh Jackman, Elton John, Bette Midler, Christine Baranski, Steve Martin and Tina Fey have all raided their closets to offer up personal items for a charity online auction, with one prize being a key prop from the worldwide smash musical “The Phantom of the Opera.”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the Paris Opera while continuing his commitment to the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
NEW YORK (AP) — On a sun-splashed portion of Lincoln Center, with 120 health care workers listening in neatly arranged rows of folding chairs, members of the New York Philharmonic made an initial return to concerts Wednesday, 13 months after the novel coronavirus pandemic decimated their season.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Tulsa Opera has canceled a piece written for a concert on the city’s 1921 race massacre after the composer of one of four pieces for the event refused a request to remove a curse on America from the piece.
Barcelona’s Liceu opera house reopened its doors on Monday for the first time in over three months to hold a concert - exclusively for a quiet…
A Barcelona opera house performed its first concert since the coronavirus lockdown — to an audience that didn't have to worry about social distancing.
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A polish opera singer is putting some baroque-dancing into baroque music. Buzz60’s Mercer Morrison has the story.
From Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” to “The Nutcracker,” there are certain theatrical productions that audiences expect to see around th…
In his deep, slightly leathery voice, self-titled Southern troubadour Grayson Capps will paint you a Southern Gothic picture as he sings of dr…
Placido Domingo tried to pressure women into sexual relationships by dangling jobs and then sometimes punishing them professionally when they refused, numerous women told the AP.
With the help of Oprah Winfrey, Paul Simon, Questlove and others, we peel back the layers of emotion, technique and lived experience she packed into these six key performances.
The first time rising opera star Raquel González heard the great Maria Callas, she admits she didn’t get the appeal.
For six decades, the world had countless opportunities to be stunned by the talent and range of the undisputed Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at age 76 of pancreatic cancer.
Thumbs up to Cecelia Shieve — though with sadness — who’s leaving her post with Opera on the James later this month to take a new position wit…
Thumbs up to Dr. Mike Valentine, of Lynchburg, on his assuming the presidency of the American College of Cardiology earlier this month. Valent…
Thumbs up to Dr. Mike Valentine, of Lynchburg, on his assuming the presidency of the American College of Cardiology earlier this month.
Listening to PeterLeonard talk musicis like listening to a sommelier talk fine wine.
Listening to Peter Leonard talk music is like listening to a sommelier talk fine wine.
Listening to Peter Leonard talk music is like listening to a sommelier talk fine wine. It's the warmth in the timbre of his voice as he discus…
Del. Ben Cline, R-Rockbridge, has announced he will hold a Dec. 21 town hall meeting in Amherst for public input prior to the start of the Gen…
Amherst Glebe Response, Inc. (AGAR) will co-present the European premier of Virginia composer Aaron Garber’s chamber opera “Romania: Revolutio…
"Don Giovanni," 7:30 p.m., Academy Center of the Arts, Warehouse Theatre, 600 Main St. Opera on the James performance of Mozart's famous opera…
Opera on the James is trading in swords for hot rods in its upcoming production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.”