The English Civil War provides obstacles to Bellini’s lovers, but instead of amping up the drama, the additional history ...

BASTROP, Texas — Bastrop is a town steeped in history and it's known for preserving some of its historic buildings. One of the oldest buildings in town is still very much a part of the fabric of the ...

In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. Du Bois portrays a newcomer to the world of opera, enthralled by the Prelude to Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin. John “sat in dreamland, and started when, after a ...

Get the best news & discounts for Broadway & beyond.

In this sometimes plodding, sometimes energetic, but always fascinating history of opera, music historians Abbate and Parker conduct us on a captivating journey from the birth of opera in the 17th ...

Sissieretta Jones is one of America's greatest opera singers, but her 19th century career has been left out of many modern history books. Rosalyn Story, author of And So I Sing: African American Divas ...