Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning first full-length opera, was commissioned by and premiered at the “old” Metropolitan Opera, in 1958. For all its virtues, a new, 2025 live ...

Has it really been a century since composer and librettist Carlisle Floyd (1926-2021) was born on June 11? Floyd was only 27 when he wrote the full-length opera "Susannah" (1955) in his modest cottage ...

The separation of the Washington National Opera from the overrun-and-soon-to-close Kennedy Center has meant next season’s eight planned productions, including five full length operas, will occur on ...