Mastodon will be part of a talk sponsored by The Metropolitan Opera regarding 'Moby-Dick' and their album 'Leviathan.' ...

I wrote a forty-to-fifty-page treatment, which no one ever saw, of how the opera would unfold. And then I got that down to fifteen pages, which the composer saw, and then ten pages, which the ...

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WPI professor Lucy Caplan explores how Black artists helped transform opera in new book "Dreaming in Ensemble." ...

Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick has inspired a lot of art over the decades: Two examples are Mastodon’s 2004 heavy ...

Most opera fans aren’t exactly awed by the beauty of the broadcast version, but the practice is still worthwhile, ...

OPERA America has revealed the eight recipients of the 2025 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers ...

The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away from Saturdays at the recommendation of a consultant trying to boost the ...

The pair met back in 2013 when they were competing in a singing competition in Verona, Italy. She won a prize and he did not.

Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over 51 years, has died. He was 83. Plishka died Monday at a hospice in ...