On this day in 2001, MTV premiered Carmen: A Hip Hopera, a genre-bending, culture-shifting reinterpretation of Georges Bizet’s classic opera Carmen—with a Hip Hop twist that made waves through both ...

The Springfield Symphony Orchestra is stretching into multiple genres and allowing budding musicians a chance to work with the professionals for its first concert of 2025 “Symphonic Fusion: ...

You may remember Beyoncé’s Carmen: A Hip Hopera—if you don’t, google it. The MTV production set the bar for “hip hopera” (hip hop and opera) by completely changing the game. Now, Regina King is ...

As famed streamer and influencer IShowSpeed stood atop the roof of Hyphy Burger in September, millions of fans from around the world tuned in. Hundreds more stood on the streets of West Oakland below.

Ask any Berkshire County resident to describe their most memorable music moment of 2025, and the answer is liable to look wildly different each time. In each of these examples, the stage, the room and ...

Black Violin, a quartet led by two string players that melds musical styles from classical to funk to hip hop How it got its start Kevin Sylvester (Kev Marcus) and Wilner Baptiste (Wil B) were ...

When I first saw Lorenzo "Rennie" Harris' Puremovement dance company in 2000 it was in the award-winning hip-hop opera "Rome & Jewels." I was blown away with how masterfully Harris had elevated a ...