WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 10 years after it was first imagined as an opera, “Grounded” is ready to take flight. With music by Jeanine Tesori and a libretto adapted by George Brant from his own play, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Opera Grants for Female Composers seek to promote the development of works by ...

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 ...

Australian Jessica Gethin conducts under the watch of conductor Emmanuel Villaume. He's leading this master class in the Dallas Opera's first-ever Institute for Women Conductors. In a banner year of ...

For the first time in more than 100 years, the Met is performing an opera written by a woman. Listen to the work of some of the many female composers working today. This month, the Metropolitan Opera ...

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion for American opera, is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of Discovery Grants from the Opera Grants ...

Lidiya Yankovskaya is the music director for the Chicago Opera Theater. She was pregnant when conducting “Becoming Santa Claus” last month, and she returned to her podium days after giving birth to ...

Each generation of young opera singers eventually becomes familiar with some of the great opera singers of the past. I’ve seen this happen, first hand, at least a dozen times. I must admit that I ...

Afton Battle is one of the very few Black female general directors of an opera company in North America. She was hired in late 2020 to transform the company — in the middle of a pandemic. When Afton ...