It was a year for outstanding individual performances, especially from relative newcomers, and at least three flawless ...

French author Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera was released in 1910, based on rumors he'd heard about the Palais Garnier, the Paris opera house, one about a fire in the roof of the opera ...

The five biennial Golf Digest World’s 100 Greatest Courses rankings—the first was published in 2014—reveal several consistencies. Royal County Down, the top-ranked course for 2022-2023, for instance, ...

In a year light on local Grammy nominees, Houston Grand Opera is hitting another high note with a pair of nominations. The world renowned company is attached to Blanton Alspaugh's nomination for ...

Houston Grand Opera has a new music director. Staff, cast and crew members from Puccini's "Il Trittico" and Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" were invited to gather backstage late Wednesday night for ...

San Francisco Opera takes a breather from its regimen of presenting full-fledged and lavish operatic productions to let Music Director Eun Sun Kim shine a solo spotlight on her instrumentalists in a ...

Opera Parallle, San Francisco's innovating champion of new work, opens its 2025-26 season this weekend with an inspirational show celebrating Black women scientists. The world premiere "Hello, Star" ...

This post should be about how there's some really good new music for you to go buy and immediately listen to on this Bancamp Friday, but I'm afraid it's mostly going to be about the excruciating ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In 1949, choreographer Jerome Robbins phoned Leonard Bernstein with an idea for updating “Romeo and Juliet” into a ...

Welcome back to The Morning Win. The NFL season is only a week old and people are already trying to send Russell Wilson into retirement. We're already in midseason form. That's part of why the NFL ...

In a season with some of the best opera offerings in recent years, the Aspen Music Festival topped things off Tuesday with the “arena” version of Puccini’s evergreen “La bohème.” The 2,000-seat Klein ...