Anthony D. Anderson, performs on stage. He was introduced to opera through a music teacher at Duke Ellington School for the Arts in D.C.(Courtesy Lisa Helfert Photography ) Opera singer Anthony D.

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS — At first blush, opera and hip-hop might not seem to mesh. After all, the history of opera dates back more than 400 years, and hip-hop just celebrated a half-century. But there are ...

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A Juneteenth opera in Kalamazoo uses firsthand slave narratives to tell powerful stories through music, from spirituals to hip hop.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The heavy-hitting and often spontaneous style of Hip Hop that gets audiences grooving doesn’t really match with the buttoned-up, formal setting performances opera singers ...

Carl DuPont, assistant professor of voice, was selected to take part in the premier cohort of IN Series' Cardwell Dawson Resident Artists Program, a two-year residency providing lead roles, voting ...

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 ...