Shawn E. Milnes

<p>If the movie <i>The Imitation Game</i> desexualized codebreaking hero Alan Turing, <i>The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing</i> seeks to make his sexuality central to who he was.<br> </p>

Composer Jake Heggie has turned the classic Christmas movie, about desperate George Bailey and Clarence the angel, into an opera—inspired by his own father’s suicide.

When a man sprinkled ashes of a mentor into the orchestra pit at the Met on Saturday he sparked a terror alert. It's not the first time the cops have had to rush to the opera.

<p><i>27</i>&nbsp; tells the story of Stein and Toklas’s relationship, alongside the luminaries they called friends and championed, including Picasso, Matisse, Man Ray, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway.<br> </p>

‘Doomocracy,’ an immersive ‘House of Political Nightmares’ at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, includes rooms devoted to the two candidates, climate change, and gun violence. Fun!

<p><em>Happy Birthday, Wanda June</em>, Vonnegut’s reworking of the myth of Odysseus’s return from the Trojan War, was meant as a commentary on the Vietnam War. Now it will be performed as an opera for the first time.</p>

This weekend’s ‘Public Domain’ will bring together 1,000 volunteer singers from around New York City, crowd-sourced from an online campaign, to participate in a choral event whose lyrics originate from online autocomplete searches.

If you like your opera to come with a side order of hiking and picnicking, head to the summery delights of Glimmerglass.

Marian Anderson sang a landmark 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, and blazed a trail for other black classical singers. Now she is being celebrated on U.S. currency.

<p>The creators of <i>JFK</i>, a new opera about Jack Kennedy’s assassination, hope that their ‘cosmic’ work brings opera to a new young audience.</p>