For the mezzo-soprano opera singer Nina Yoshida Nelsen, a reckoning has been long overdue. Following the March 2021 Atlanta spa shootings, Nelsen, a fourth-generation Japanese American, had a moment ...

Considered Giacomo Puccini’s finest musical masterpiece, Turandot transports audiences to a fantasy land based on a Western conception of China. What does it mean to produce an opera like Turandot ...

Today American Lyric Theater has announced the Opera Writers Diversity and Representation Initiative as part of an ongoing commitment to mentoring the next generation of operatic writers. In ...

Elgan Llŷr Thomas played Nanki Poo in The Mikado, a comic opera in which his character falls in love with a woman who is set to be punished for flirting A Welsh opera singer has said the art must have ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — People are speaking out on social media after a performance of the Knoxville Opera's Madame Butterfly. Pictures taken show actors wearing makeup resembling people of Asian decent.

Two women working to diversify opera in the UK have spoken of the importance of “demystifying” the art and focusing on the storytelling it provides. Alison Buchanan and Simone Ibbett-Brown told the PA ...

A Welsh opera singer has said the art must have more LGBTQ+ representation if it is to survive. Elgan Llŷr Thomas, 33, from Llandudno, Conwy county, said more gay opera characters must be written. The ...