On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart weighed in on Timothée Chalamet’s viral takedown of ballet and opera. “As you are well aware, a terrible war has been raging for two weeks now,” ...

Bangkok-based opera director S.P. Somtow on why the genre's future may lie far from where it began: "Opera is going to survive no matter what anyone says." By Somtow Sucharitkul Composer and Conductor ...

Earlier this month, former English National Opera artistic director John Berry said opera in the UK needed to “attract good writers and tell better stories” that could tap into the zeitgeist, making ...

Italian opera legend Andrea Bocelli told People that he’s “surprised” his “fellow artist” Timothée Chalamet disparaged the value of opera and ballet during the “Variety & CNN Town Hall,” adding that ...

When actor Timothée Chalamet sparked a wave of backlash from artists and fans after saying that “no one cares about” opera and ballet, opera companies across the country took to social media, not just ...

The Seattle Opera fired off a tongue-in-cheek rebuttal in response to Timothée Chalamet’s comments about the ballet and opera on Saturday. The company announced a discount code—the actor’s first ...

Ballet and opera companies around the world have called out Timothée Chalamet following the actor’s less-than-complimentary remarks about the art forms in a recent interview. In February, Chalamet and ...

Timothée Chalamet is catching criticism for his recent comments about ballet and opera, where the Oscar nominee said that "no one cares" about those art forms. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Mounting an opera has never been easy. Rudolf Bing, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972, once offered this observation: “To make successful opera in New York you do ‘Carmen ...

Back in November, Washington National Opera artistic director Francesca Zambello figured out exactly how she would blow up the opera company’s 44-year relationship with the John F. Kennedy Center for ...

If only European generals had possessed the tactical skills of Opera Orlando’s leaders, perhaps World War I might have been a shorter and less bloody affair. Opera Orlando waited until it felt the ...

The opera, created by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, in collaboration with director and choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, tells the story of Civil War-era spies Mary Jane Bowser, ...