The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

Jenny Ribeiro is getting ready to storm the Bastille. On July 14 — aka Bastille Day, aka French National Day — she and the non-profit she leads will present an afternoon of French opera at the Grace ...

The first opera of the season at the French Opera House marked the start of the New Orleans’ social season. The massive 80-foot tall opera house, which opened in 1859 at the corner of Bourbon and ...

Bourbon Street — where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock 'n' roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes — is also one of the first places in America where opera was heard. Now, it's being ...

Opera has always been a means for voicing political dissent. Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro criticized the aristocracy. Verdi’s operas reflected on Italy’s struggle for independence. John Adams wrote ...

2 Review: MOZART’S THE MAGIC FLUTE at The Metropolitan Opera EM: I'm so impressed with what I've been reading and hearing about you. Your upcoming schedule is mind-boggling. BH: Yes, it's a little ...

PARIS — Immortalized in the canvases of Edgar Degas and the novels of Victor Hugo, ballet dancers and opera singers occupy a cherished position in the French imagination. But these days, they are ...

How does a French opera set in 1820s Spain become one of the most popular operas of all time? Just ask a French conductor. ’s production of Bizet’s “Carmen.” “These tunes are so richly inspired that ...

New York's  Heartbeat Opera—the indie company whose daring, stripped down takes of classic operas have been called 'a radical endeavor' by The New Yorker and 'revelatory' by The Los Angeles ...

Born in Martinique, Ms. Eda-Pierre was one of France’s first international Black opera stars. By Neil Genzlinger Christiane Eda-Pierre, a coloratura soprano who was among France’s first Black opera ...