While bias-cut slip dresses were popular on the runways at the time, only CBK would dare to bring the style down the aisle.

NEW YORK (AP) — Despite encouraging box office figures for the season’s first half, the financially strapped Metropolitan Opera scaled back its 2026-27 schedule with its fewest productions in at least ...

The season includes a jazzy reimagining of "The Pirates of Penzance," an opera based on a Stephen King novel and the Cooper-Bing vocal competition. Season subscriptions will go on sale April 20, and ...

Back in November, Washington National Opera artistic director Francesca Zambello figured out exactly how she would blow up the opera company’s 44-year relationship with the John F. Kennedy Center for ...

If only European generals had possessed the tactical skills of Opera Orlando’s leaders, perhaps World War I might have been a shorter and less bloody affair. Opera Orlando waited until it felt the ...

In 1917, World War I plunged the world into chaos, significantly impacting Russia as it lost territory to Germany while its citizens faced starvation. This crisis led to the February Revolution, ...

Opera Baltimore’s inaugural Opera Ball hit a lot of high notes. First, there was the encouraged “high-glam” attire paired with a masquerade theme a la the carnival in the opera, “Lucrezia Borgia.” ...

Mr. Scorca served as the president and chief executive of Opera America, a service organization, from 1990 to 2025. When the Washington National Opera announced its decision to leave the Kennedy ...

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Would you pay $55 million for art that you’ll never get to take home? The Metropolitan Opera hopes the answer is yes. The preeminent American opera company is considering selling the pair of iconic ...

The proposed sale comes after a long list of measures enacted to stabilize the opera. The Metropolitan Opera’s financial precarity mounted during the pandemic, and since then, the institution has had ...

Washington National Opera’s divorce-in-progress from the Kennedy Center has triggered several custody battles to determine the future of its assets, including its $30 million endowment, the WNO ...