The groundbreaking director and designer of works like Einstein on the Beach died earlier today at his home in Water Mill, New York
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The Peruvian tenor Luigi Alva has died at 98.
parterre box is very sad to learn of the passing of beloved writer Patrick Mack in Los Angeles yesterday.
The German Heldentenor died yesterday at his home in Austria.
The American bass, a fixture of the Metropolitan Opera between 1967 and 2018, was 83.
A message from CEO and General Director Piper Gunnarson and Board President Corey Kinger announces the closure of the innovative New York-based On Site Opera
The celebrated Austrian director, known for his picturesque and conservative stagings, was 94.
The dependable American soprano, a fixture of the midcentury Metropolitan Opera, died on September 6
Earlier this month the opera world was stunned to learn of the death of Belgian soprano Jodie Devos who died of breast cancer at just 35, and Chris’s Cache remembers her with a broadcast from last November of Devos as Ophélie in Hamlet, her only US appearance.
The celebrated and unique Polish contralto was 71.
Zack Woolfe of The New York Times remembers James Jorden
The writers of the Box and James’s friends are saddened to announce the death of the inimitable founder of Parterre Box
The Italian soprano, pedagogue and mentor has died. She was 89.
In voice, artistic sensibility and glamour, the singer was every inch a diva.
We have just read the sad news.
The beloved concert and opera singer died earlier today.
The celebrated Italian soprano died yesterday. She was 92.
When I think of Stephen Sondheim, so many of my memories are not simply about shows of his I loved and learned from—they are experiences that literally shaped my life.
April is the cruelest month, the song tells us—but this year, it was a week later. Ghenady Meirson, Philadelphia’s master of Russian Opera and coach extraordinaire, died on May 8.
The renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss for more than four decades died yesterday.
The stalwart Met mezzo-soprano died earlier today.
The beloved lyric soprano has died, according to press reports.
It is with a heavy heart that La Cieca predicts the demise of New York City Opera.
It is reported that the tenor died suddenly today of a heart attack in his home in Augusta, Sicily.
