On January 30, 1901, as a hearse drove the coffin of Giuseppe Verdi to the cemetery in Milan, a huge crowd gathered to honor ...

Milan’s La Scala announced in May that Chung will take the post when current director Riccardo Chailly’s contract ends in ...

Carl St.Clair will close his 35th and final season as music director of Pacific Symphony with this week’s performances of ...

While most Roman amphitheaters have long since succumbed to the ravages of time, several remain or have been refurbished to a ...

Cape Town Opera delivers a superb production of one of opera’s true classics, Aida. This production reimagines the setting in an African futurist time and landscape.

The historic La Scala opera house in Italy has announced that renowned South Korean conductor Chung Myung-Whun will take over in 2027 and serve as music director until 2030.

BUSAN, South Korea — South Korea's K-pop artists are on such a roll across the globe that it can be easy to forget their classical music forebearers were rocking the world's concert halls well ...

Mexican opera tenor Rolando Villazon joined French harpist Xavier de Maistre to stage performances at Shanghai's Grand ...

Chung says he's especially fond of Giuseppe Verdi's operas, several of which debuted at La Scala. UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL GROUP #1: (As characters, singing in non-English language). (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Vladyslav Buialskyi stood center stage at the Metropolitan Opera, his hand on his heart, and sang the national anthem of his country, Ukraine.