LONDON (Reuters) - "Contemporary" and "opera" are scary words, but when Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos writes one that includes the sound of car horns and slide guitars, his aim is to engage his ...

A woman walks in front of the "Philharmonie de Paris" concert hall, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, on February 10, 2015 in Paris The New York Philharmonic on Thursday announced a tour of ...

In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the thumps of a heart cause a murderer to reveal his guilt. Whether those thumps are imagined or real is left for the reader to consider. In Poe’s tales, ...

It’s two for the price of one at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater Friday evening when New Voices Opera premieres two new operas on its annual Spring Double Bill. Well, actually, admission is free, but a ...

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Giuseppe Verdi could put his musical stamp on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and “Othello.” Sergei Prokofiev was able to successfully adapt Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” for the opera stage. Yet there’s ...

Angels of all sorts find their way to opera. The cherub in Messiaen’s “Saint Francois d’Assise” is bliss personified. Prokofiev’s “The Fiery Angel” is the other side of the equation. So it was almost ...

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The New York Philharmonic on Thursday announced a tour of Europe where it will play the new concert hall in Paris and premiere an opera by Peter Eotvos. The top-tier US orchestra will play in Dublin, ...