From the 16th to the 20th century, we celebrate 10 of opera’s most influential voices. Composers have enjoyed writing operas since the late Renaissance.We imagine they must be rather fun to compose – ...

Columbia University hosted the 2015 performance of Voodoo by Lawrence Freeman. Harry Lawrence Freeman was arguably the most important African-American composer of opera working during the era of the ...

“Porgy and Bess” was written by three white men. But African-American composers have long been crafting ambitious music dramas. By Seth Colter Walls That “Porgy and Bess” — written by ...

How Opera’s Crisis Can Become an Opera Renaissance By embracing change, we're not just preserving opera for future generations; we're bringing more people to the art form. By Ana De Archuleta ...

Some classic 19th-century operas lend themselves to time-bending better than others. Take “Rigoletto,” for instance. The era and setting of Giuseppe Verdi’s often-performed, exquisitely ...

RENAISSANCE: THE BLOOD AND THE BEAUTY Premieres Tuesdays, July 8-22, 2025 at 9:00 pm on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org and the ...

Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance (11 February – 11 June 2023) will be the first major UK exhibition to explore the exceptional talents of the Renaissance master, Donatello.It will offer a ...

A number of forms were developed in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Structures in the Renaissance period were mainly based on the text being used. Religious music was written to be sung by ...

A breakdancing opera singer may sound like one of the most incongruous things out there. But not for Jakub Józef Orliński. "Not to brag, I might be the only one," the Polish countertenor told ...