Opera

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

The team behind Sensorium Ex worked for five years to develop sophisticated technology that uses artificial intelligence and vocal sampling to create an expressive voice.

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with composer Levi Taylor and librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton about two new operas featuring Black female protagonists that were commissioned by the Kennedy Center's Social Impact program, in collaboration with the Washington National Opera.

There is a historic opera house in the Amazon that is a destination for some famous singers, musicians and local fans.

Taiwan opera is revered across the Asian island. One of its most beloved traits is its gender-bending character archetypes, and its best-known actors are women who portray men.

In Carolyn Jack’s latest novel, a child prodigy navigates the ruthless worlds of classical music, opera, and his mother’s ambition. Can he survive the pressure? Book critic Joan Baum read the book. Here’s her review.