On January 2, 1958, a minor official at the Rome Opera House bore the thankless task of announcing bad news to the audience: Maria Callas had left the building. The legendary soprano, stricken by ...
If you’re a musical theater composer, Broadway might get you a Tony Award — but it won’t get you 50 voices singing onstage. For that kind of scale, Jeanine Tesori, the Tony-winning composer of ...
Only one copy survives of Carolina Uccelli’s 1835 opera “Anna di Resburgo.” The story behind it is a human one, touching and somewhat sad. Carolina Uccelli, the courageous but unfulfilled 19th-century ...
Arguing that art is its own form of resistance, the Minnesota Opera forged ahead with the world premiere of “My Name is Florence” amid widespread immigration enforcement actions in the area.