Dido and Aeneas opera, staged at the Bangalore International Centre, blends Western music with Indian aesthetics, to showcase ...

Many different forms of music flourished during the Classical period - works such as symphonies, concertos, solo pieces and… opera! This piece of music was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in ...

Edmond Dédé composed Morgiane 138 years ago, but his racial identity prevented the opera from receiving proper staging.

To explain how this happened, Joseph pointed to racial tensions and violence during the Reconstruction era ... classical ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

However, as opera developed through the Baroque and Classical periods ... to an art form of profound storytelling. The Romantic era saw the most significant fusion of opera and ballet music.

After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance in College Park.

For the next 35 years he generated booms in opera, choral and instrumental playing, and London attracted a wealth of major European composers, Mozart, Chopin and Mahler among them. The Victorian era ...