In 1975, Queen were an ambitious band hungry for superstardom – and then they released their fourth album, A Night At The Opera, and monster hit single Bohemian Rhapsody. Former Melody Maker ...

Not so in "The Nightingale," a new opera premiering this weekend at Lisner Auditorium. In this adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the chorus -- all 75 members, ages 10 to 17 ...

Lecturer and vocalist Wendy Hillhouse (left), Deven Bansal ’25 (middle) and Michael Murphy (right) singing in “First Night at the Opera.” (Photo courtesy of Aeri Chen). I do wish that there ...

On my parents’ honeymoon to Paris, they saw Puccini’s Tosca at an opera house where the surtitles were in French and the opera was in Italian. Che casino! Neither of them understood what was happening ...

A few years back I was a “super” at the Metropolitan Opera’s production of La Bohème. I don’t mean I was super – singing along to the radio’s the extent of my experience as a musical ...

Cast members of "First Night at the Opera/Edges" (from left to right: Sanjana Khurana ’26, Iskander Nekkaz Le Roux ’24, Emma Leibowitz ’26, Dyllen Nellis ’24) pose for a photo.

A Night at the Opera on display through Jan. 25, 2014, at the Library of Congress's James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-4604. www.loc.gov .

Last night, the Metropolitan Opera gave an excellent performance of Tannhäuser, Wagner’s opera from 1845. The Met uses a production of Otto Schenk, which premiered in 1977. Herr Schenk, born in 1930, ...

About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible.