Celebrate 22 years of "Carmen: A Hip Hopera," the groundbreaking fusion of hip hop & opera starring Beyoncé, that changed pop culture forever. Twenty-two years ago, a groundbreaking musical film hit ...

Classical music performers say they’re seeing a boost in younger opera fans. Opera singer Anthony D. Anderson said younger listeners are finding more ways of becoming exposed to the genre and they’re ...

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 ...

A ground-breaking contemporary opera fusing rap, hip-hop, and theatre is heading to Leeds School of Arts this November as ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, best known for staging classical European operas for nearly 60 years, is breaking new ground with an original hip-hop-inspired production on ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I feel like each day I show up, and I bring my background, it continues to force the door open a little bit," he said. "I feel like each day I show up, and I bring my background, it continues to ...

Everything old is new again. Tchaikovsky's 129-year-old ballet is reimagined as a holiday dance spectacle in The Hip Hop Nutcracker (www.hiphopnutcracker.com), plays the Detroit Opera House for one ...