Mid-Day6hOpinion
The fandom of the opera!
Wherein the villain Phantom aka Erik is especially skilled at strangling people with the Punjab lasso; a looped rope, like a ...
Louder8h
Smashing Pumpkins classic Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness to be turned into an opera for 30th anniversary
Smashing Pumpkins mainman Billy Corgan is taking his band's classic album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness to the opera in celebration of its 30th anniversary. The Lyric Opera in the band's ...
WBAL-TV12h
Hippodrome prepares for upcoming season with 3 national tour launches
Aside from the three national tour launches, "A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical," "Dr. Suess' How the Grinch Stole ...
The Rise and Fall of Technicolor In Hollywood’s Golden Age
The exquisitely exacting and expensive process (three to four times more costly than reliable black and white) was a major ...
OperaWire15h
Q & A: Timothy Long on Modern Opera Audiences, Shorter Works & Education
Timothy Long is a recognized conductor, pianist, and composer who is the Artistic and Music Director of Opera at Eastman ...
Lyric Opera’s 2025-26 season includes ‘Madama Butterfly’ and Billy Corgan revisiting ‘Mellon Collie’
The Lyric Opera of Chicago laid out its 2026-26 season at a presentation at the Civic Opera House on Tuesday, the first ...
Lyric Opera of Chicago will start to reflect John Mangum’s production picks in 2026-27
The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025-26 season will include five productions that first appeared elsewhere and one revival, all picked by general director John Mangum’s predecessor, Anthony Freud.