Opera

Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is Ushering in a New Act for the Metropolitan Opera

By Lily Rothman

Domestic Helpers Are the Subject of a New Opera, Mila

By Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong

Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers

By Casey Quackenbush

A Murder That Shocked the World, at Sea and on Stage

By Jennifer Latson
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See the World's Most Impressive Opera Houses

“In the English-speaking world they say ‘Break a leg.’ But in Italy, they say, ‘In bocca al lupo,’ which means, ‘In the wolf’s mouth.’ Because when we singers face the audience from the stage of...

By Myles Little

How Classical Music Advanced the Civil Rights Movement

Remembering Marian Anderson's landmark Met performance, 60 years later

By Sarah Begley

Why People Love Reading About Supreme Court Justices' Favorite Movies

Ginsburg's defense of a controversial opera is the latest in a long series of culture-diet revelations from the judges

By Daniel D'Addario

'The Death of Klinghoffer': Censorship Isn't Just Anti-Democratic—It's Anti-Jewish

Isn't the very point and soul of art to demonstrate the human endeavor in all its multifaceted messiness?

By Jennifer Moses

The Death of Klinghoffer and What Actually Happened on the Achille Lauro

A controversial opera is based on the events of a 1985 terrorist attack

By Lily Rothman

Hundreds Protest Met's New Opera for 'Romanticizing Terrorism'

"The Death of Klinghoffer'' is about the murder of a disabled Jewish man by Palestinian extremists

By Laura Stampler

Gene Kelly: Rare Photos of a Song and Dance Legend in Paris

Rare photographs of Gene Kelley in France in 1960, creating a ballet for the storied Paris Opera.

By Ben Cosgrove

Opera Singer Fired After Homophobic Slurs Posted to Facebook Page

She has placed the blame on her "very religious" husband

By Nash Jenkins

Opera Coast iPhone Browser Treats Sites Like Apps

No disrespect meant to Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari, but in the grand scheme of things, there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between them. They aim to do much the same thing in...

By Harry McCracken

Zhang Yaxin: Photographing Chairman Mao's Model Operas

In 1967, Zhang Yaxin was 34 and working as a photojournalist at China’s state-controlled Xinhua News Agency when he was assigned to a top-secret government project: to be the official photographer of a new arts program led by Chairman Mao and his wife.

By Chengcheng Jiang

Pictures of the Week: May 25–June 1

From Memorial Day observances in the United States and an exchange of bodies in the West Bank to the massacre in Syria and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in England, TIME's photo department presents the best images of the week.

By TIME Photo Department
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