Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nadja Sayej writes about fashion, celebrity and pop culture. Maria Callas has always been a go-to fashion icon in opera history, ...

The opening scenes of attending an opera are standard. Storming applause announces the conductor’s assumption of his post at the front of the pit. A grand curtain rises to reveal a dazzling set, and a ...

This spring, Portland Opera checks in to the Overlook Hotel. The company is taking a big artistic swing and staging The Shining, an opera composed by Paul Moravec with a libretto by Mark Campbell, ...

Independent Opera’s modest “The Stone Guest” is a revelation. L.A. Opera breathes fresh, surprising life into a recycled ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Pacific Opera Project’s super-rare production of ‘Don ...

It’s no surprise that Matteo Bocelli, the son of legendary Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, chose music as a career path. But even though he grew up in a house filled with music, the elder Bocelli was ...

When we say the winter music calendar has everything we are barely exaggerating. The season has multiple Pixies-related projects, Huey Lewis covers, century-old operas, rising pop stars, and New ...