Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice,” composed for a Medici court wedding in 1600, holds the title of the oldest extant opera.

UWSP students join Monteverdi Chorale for "Opera Classics" Oct. 25-26 in Stevens Point and Wausau. Tickets available now.

When Opera Atelier artistic directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg mounted Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in 1991, the naysayers and the financial burden could have sunk their company.

Through Monteverdi’s later works, such as the scena Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (The Battle of Tancred and Clorinda), and his final surviving opera, L’incoronazione di Poppea (The ...

It’s the closing of a circle but presumably not the last time Pinchgut will essay Monteverdi’s works. This is music close to the heart of artistic director Erin Hel­yard, for whom Monteverdi has a ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Editor’s note: This story was updated on Oct. 8, 2025, with comments from James Meena. In the latest offstage turmoil at Opera ...

Opera today launched its subscription-based, AI-focused Neon browser, which joins a growing field of companies touting agentic browsing capabilities. Opera first previewed Neon in May and is now ...

Browser maker Opera launched its AI-centric browser Neon Tuesday, with the ability to create apps through AI prompts and create repeatable prompts through a feature called “Cards.” With this Opera ...

Robert Larsen, driven by his love for opera, founded the Des Moines Metro Opera in Indianola, Iowa in 1973. Larsen's ambitious leadership and dedication built the opera from a small-town production to ...

Major artists have created works for Masquerade, an immersive revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, which begins previews this week at a renovated art-supply store near Central Park ...

The Ryedale Festival just keeps on offering us perfection in terms of setting and performers, and this concert in Ampleforth Abbey featuring the a capella ensemble VOCES8, was the finest of the lot.