PRAGUE- A Prague festival will host the world premiere of Antonio Vivaldi's opera L'Unione della Pace, e di Marte, following its reconstruction by a Czech expert 284 years after its only...

TOKYO- New York's Metropolitan Opera said Tuesday two of its leading stars have pulled out of a tour in Japan at the last minute for fear of radiation from the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear...

PARIS- Celebrated mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato packed emotion and virtuosity into the title role of Handel's "Ariodante" at the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris on Monday. The relatively small...

WASHINGTON- At 70 years old, he climbs ladders, rolls on the ground and his voice shakes the room: Placido Domingo is Oreste in "Iphigenie en Tauride," a performance-style farewell to the Washington...

VIENNA- Latvian star mezzo Elina Garanca is expecting a baby at the end of October, the Austrian daily Oesterreich reported on Friday. In a pre-release of an article to appear in its Saturday...

PRETORIA, Charlotte Plantive- Her voice soaring over the stage, a soprano captures the rebellious, violent passion of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, in an opera devoted to the former wife of South...

VIENNA- Two operas never staged at the Vienna State Opera before will top the bill next season, the head of the world famous opera house, Dominique Meyer, said Tuesday. Presenting the programme of...

VIENNA- The first-ever staging in Vienna of Gaetano Donizetti's rarely-performed opera "Anna Bolena" received 20 minutes of standing ovations at its star-studded premiere at the Vienna State Opera...

BERLIN- Berlin's avant-garde Komische Oper opera house said Tuesday it plans to reach out to the German capital's large Turkish minority with translations of performances on screens at every seat....