opera

🐻 Opera featuring lesbian sex scenes, crucifixions and bloody gore leaves 18 requiring medical treatment from graphic 3-hour show

"Sancta Susanna" tells the story of a suppressed nun’s journey of self-discovery and sex🐻uality, featuring shocking elements including nudity, explicit sex scenes and real injuries.

How a tubby little ﷽horse became a star of stage and screen — and the toast of NYC

🦹 Billy has appeared in movies wiಌth Meryl Streep and Hugh Jackman and graced the opera stage at The Met.

Angelina Jolie bursts into tears at 'Maria' premiere — trained 7 months to be an opera singer

Angelina Jolie got overcome with emotion during🅠 the Venice Film Fe꧑stival, after her movie “Maria” got an 8-minute standing ovation. 

NYC's Metropolitan Opera puts trigger warning on 'problematic' masterpiece in latest bow to woke culture

The opera "is rife with contradictions, distortions, and racial stereotypes," reads a program note promising "a ൩discussion of the opera’s cultural insensitivities."

The Met's new opera is the latest take on the life of civil rights icon Malcolm X

The Met just premiered the opera 🤪“X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.”

The Democratic Party's at war with itself — and the West

Joe Biden’s pa♈rty is at war with itself.

Radio station bans new Met operas over "non-biblical" and LGBTQ m💃ateri🔴al 

WCPE, a listener-funded classical music s✃tation that serves the Raleigh-Durham area, is protesting the Met’s decision to showcase recently written wor♌ks by composers from a wide variety of racial and...

Renowned conductor allegedly pu🗹nches singer at concert for exiting wrong side of the stage

The 80-year-old conductor aꦇnd friend of King Charles has come under fire for smacking around a 20-something singer after a show.

♑ Russian star sue⛎s Met Opera for $360K for dropping her after Ukraine invasion

Anna Netrebko, who voiced her support for Russian President Vl𝐆adimir Putin's invasion, said the Met Opera's decision to cut ties with her has left her with ”⛎severe mental anguish and...

Opera 'Carmen' will be remade as a film — inside the dance-fueled changes

“Took me six years to write this. Drama told through music — like ‘West Side Story.’ I reinvented her. More freedom. She’s not just an object of desire💜.”

 Opera legend who took on the Metropolitan lisℱts NYC home for $1.44M

Lucine Amara, k🐻nown for roles in "Carmen" and fighting the Met over age discrimination, is parting ways withౠ an Upper West Side co-op. 

How Aretha Franklin s💛aved the🦩 Grammys

It had already been one hell of a night before the Queen of Soul stepped in.🧜

𒐪  Famed opera star faces new accusations of misconduct 🍷

She related how Domingo allegedly askeꦐd to touch her after a rehearsal.

Russia to entertain front-line soldiers with ope﷽ra singers, circus performers 

Kremlin officials announced a "fr🍷ont-line CREATIVE bridge" of singers and performers on Telegram Wednesday as forces ramped up attacks on civilian infrastruc🎉ture across Ukraine. 

Andrea Boไcelli is on tour. Tickets are available. We found them. 

Andrea Boc𒁏el𝔉li has 19 concerts remaining on his 2022-23 tour calendar. 

 David Hyde Pierce𓂃 is set for the stage 𓆉and dinner

“I’m nervous. Used to acting but onstage tonight, one night only, at Carnegie? I’m r𒐪eading excerpts, rehearsed yesterday with the orchestra but I don’t really know whatthehell I’m doing.”

Royal Opera House bans audience member for heckling child actor ꩵ

The child's on🎶stage debut was plagued with disruptive behavior from an audience member.

 How two British opera fans saved Jewish refugeღes from Hitler’s camps

A new book by Post rep🔯orter Isabel Vincent tells how two British opera fans saved Jewish musicians from the Third Reich.

US soprano offended ꧒by bl🀅ackface pulls out of Italy opera 

Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform ꦦin an opera in Italy this month because blackface was use♑d in a different work on the same stage.

CUNY student petitions to can🐲cel Emmett Till opera written by white female playwrigꦿht

Petition author Mya Bishop alleged the opera frames the tragedy throug🌠h the eyes of a "fictional progressive🌜 white woman," a teacher in the production.