Baby Carrots and Espresso Martinis: How New Yorkers Prepared for a 5-Hour Opera

Audiences packed the house for a new production of “Tristan und Isolde.” They also came prepared, with (at least) five different forms of coffee.

Rare vintage photos of celebrities at the opera

The opera’s allure has drawn in movie stars, socialites, royalty, and more throughout the years.
Opinion

‘Opera needs to attract good writers and tell better stories’: four experts on how opera can survive, thrive and reach new audiences

Is opera dying? Do people care? What does it need to survive? Where will new audiences come from? Our experts assess the state of opera in the UK.

What Timothée Chalamet Gets Wrong — and Right — About the Death of Opera

Bangkok-based opera director S.P. Somtow on why the genre's future may lie far from where it began: "Opera is going to survive no matter what anyone says." ...
New York Post

Opera is waging a battle to save itself in the modern world — and against self-inflicted wounds

Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know how you do it,” the tenor recently told BBC Radio 3. In the same interview, ...