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The Trump-Kennedy Center has ended its exclusive partnership with the Washington National Opera (WNO) as it seeks the flexibility and funds to bring in operas from around the world and across the U.S. 

New York’s financially struggling Metropolitan Opera has slapped a trigger warning on Puccini’s “Turandot,” warning audiences that the much-performed masterpiece that is set in feudal China is “rife” with “racial stereotypes.”

New York’s Metropolitan Opera went woke and is now struggling financially, with the once formidable company repeatedly dipping into its endowment and staging the lowest number of productions since its historic strike during the 1980-81 season.

A performance of Les Miserables abandoned after green extremists stormed the stage, comparing themselves to the protagonists in the play.

NEW YORK (AP) — Günther Groissböck was about to walk onstage at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre for the first act of a new “Lohengrin” production last winter when his wife, Isabel, texted that she and their 12-year-old daughter were about to

Some 7-Eleven store owners across the country have resorted to blaring classical and opera music to deter homeless individuals from loitering outside their stores.

Italy´s most famous opera house opens Russia’s ‘Boris Godunov’ tonight, sparking protests and allegations of a propaganda win for the Kremlin.

A 37-year-old performer was killed on-stage by falling scenery during a Moscow opera this weekend, Russian media reports said.

Thunderstorms hit Germany late Monday and torrential rain poured down on southern and western parts of the country.

The Verona Arena amphitheater in northern Italy has returned to staging full operas for the first time since the pandemic — but with one big difference.

No good can possibly come of subsidising luvvies — British English for self-important actors — to produce more endlessly woke agitprop.

MEXICO CITY — Tenor Placido Domingo said Monday he is resting at home after catching the new coronavirus.

SAN FRANCISCO — The words “I am truly sorry” have not been uttered often in the #MeToo era. So when soprano Luz del Alba Rubio woke up Tuesday to see an apology from opera superstar Placido Domingo, she was in shock.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera announced Tuesday that Plácido Domingo had agreed to withdraw from his slate of scheduled performances at the opera house following allegations of sexual harassment made by multiple women in two Associated Press stories. The opera legend indicated that he would never again perform at the Met.

NEW YORK (AP) — The union that represents opera performers and staff has launched its own investigation into sexual harassment allegations against superstar Placido Domingo, saying it cannot be sure that opera companies will delve into them sufficiently themselves.

The Hungarian State Opera asked its white singers to sign a letter declaring they identify as black in reaction to casting requirements of Gershwin’s African-American 1935 folk opera Porgy and Bess.

Carmen, the opera heroine, gets to live instead of being slain — thanks to a bold twist to the finale of the Georges Bizet work by some who believe it’s time to say enough to violence against women.

Three opera singers and a classical musician say that world-renowned conductor Charles Dutoit sexually assaulted them — physically restraining them, forcing his body against theirs, sometimes thrusting his tongue into their mouths, and in one case, sticking one of their hands down his pants.

Jon Von Tetzchner, the creator of the Opera web browser, has accused Google of violating antitrust law in relation to his new browser, Vivaldi.

Popular internet browser Opera has 63 built in news outlets on their featured news section, but it doesn’t appear to have a single conservative source.

A new small British opera, Between Worlds, is attempting to dramatize what it was like for victims in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake have collaborated on a work Drake calls “a requiem

To open the Los Angeles Opera’s 2015-16 season, director Woody Allen is producing his interpretation of the acclaimed comic opera Gianni Schicchi.