For conductor Robert Mollicone and mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz, queerness has always been prominent in the arts — but not always openly so, much less in the celebratory style of San Francisco Opera’s ...

A recital featuring emerging opera stars in San Francisco this week curated by Merola Opera Program faculty member Mario Antonio Marra reflects his mission to champion Neapolitan music. "This music is ...

Last month, Marc Shepherd uncovered the manuscript scores for three cut songs from Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe. Opera Picciona has recorded and released all three, now available! Listen to the ...

Last week, Greta Van Fleet shared a cryptic video that led their followers to think that they're breaking up. (Shortley thereafter, one fan found an equally vague clue hidden in their GVF's website ...

The Grammy-winning band's hit 'Jump' was their only Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper and won the first MTV Video Music Award David Lee Roth confirmed that 'Jump' and other Van Halen songs were for the ...

“How did I end up in this extremity called my life?” asks The Mother (Ellen Lauren), one of the three central characters in the “Song of the Earth,” a new reimagining of Gustav Mahler’s “Song of the ...

If there were a heavy metal soundtrack in the 1980s, it would likely be made almost entirely of Van Halen songs. The group, founded by Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth, and Michael ...

Of all the songs written over the last century, there are a rare few that feel so traditional and true that they’re timeless, as if they could have just as easily been scratched down by candlelight in ...

One of the most esteemed singers of his era, he had a wide repertoire that included Mozart, Wagner and the title role in Messiaen’s epic “St. François d’Assise.” By Jonathan Kandell José van Dam, the ...

BRUSSELS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Belgian baritone opera singer Jose van Dam, who sang with New York's Metropolitan Opera and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, died at 85, the Queen Elisabeth Music ...

José van Dam, a Belgian opera star whose suave, silken voice, persuasive acting and steady work ethic made him one of the most esteemed bass-baritone singers of his era, died Tuesday. He was 85. The ...

This year’s Best Original Song nominees at the Oscars are a blues number, a K-Pop ditty, a Nick Cave ballad, an inspirational Diane Warren track … and an aria? Well, yeah. Nicholas Pike’s “Sweet ...