Pick up any biography of Verdi and the account of his "Galley Years" at the San Carlo will probably mention passim two composers we have...

Manhattan newspapers in September, 1860 covered Lincoln’s candidacy for president and rumblings of Southern secession. Sensational local...

For my MA thesis, I undertook a case study of one U.S. cultural alliance, the New York Opera Alliance (NYOA). NYOA is an outlier among...

The portmanteau term coopetition entered management literature in the 1990s with the publication of a book called (cleverly enough)...

Some exciting news from the U.S.: the small Michigan Opera Theater (MOT) has just announced its new artistic director, Yuval Sharon, in a...

Apotheosis of Admiral Vettor Pisani By Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1743) It is easy to forget that Verdi's Simon Boccanegra was a bit of a...

Many artists I know have told me they don't read reviews of their own performances. 192 years ago, the composer Giovanni Pacini...

Opera has endured for over 400 years, and pandemics are nothing new to practitioners.L'elisir d'Amore was composed in the midst of a...