On this day in 2001, MTV premiered Carmen: A Hip Hopera, a genre-bending, culture-shifting reinterpretation of Georges Bizet’s classic opera Carmen—with a Hip Hop twist that made waves through both ...

GRAND RAPIDS — At first blush, opera and hip-hop might not seem to mesh. After all, the history of opera dates back more than 400 years, and hip-hop just celebrated a half-century. But there are ...

Anthony D. Anderson, performs on stage. He was introduced to opera through a music teacher at Duke Ellington School for the Arts in D.C.(Courtesy Lisa Helfert Photography ) Opera singer Anthony D.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, best known for staging classical European operas for nearly 60 years, is breaking new ground with an original hip-hop-inspired production on ...

"I feel like each day I show up, and I bring my background, it continues to force the door open a little bit," he said. Friday, February 2, 2024 LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Nigerian American singer with a ...

A rock musical for a new generation tells the gospel in MTV language—for better or for worse. I doubt if many Christians have watched a dramatization of Christ’s passion and thought, “You know what ...

Victoria Omoregie’s early feelings about Shakespeare will resonate with a lot of people. “I used to absolutely, positively hate it,” Omoregie said about the Bard’s work. After working with Christopher ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The heavy-hitting and often spontaneous style of Hip Hop that gets audiences grooving doesn’t really match with the buttoned-up, formal setting performances opera singers ...

Bronx Opera Company was founded in 1967. When it comes to opera, it's all in the family for Ben Spierman. His mom's a singer, and she and his father founded the Bronx Opera Company in 1967. Flash ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Everything old is new again. Tchaikovsky's ...

A boundless vitality permeated the Ordway Center on Sunday and the venue shook with energy. Since 2009, Maia Maiden Productions has produced "Rooted" as a way to celebrate the African roots of hip-hop ...

Carl DuPont, assistant professor of voice, was selected to take part in the premier cohort of IN Series' Cardwell Dawson Resident Artists Program, a two-year residency providing lead roles, voting ...