The opening performance of Oslo's new Opera House is postponed due to security concerns. The late delivery of a critical stage control system means that the opera "Around the World in 80 Days", composed by Gisle Kverndokk, has to be rescheduled for next season.

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, 36, has been awarded the 2008 Musician of the Year by one of the world's most prestigious music editions.

It is a big call for any performer - to go back to the role that made them famous over a decade ago. But Anthony Warlow says he is up for the challenge. Once again he is wearing the white mask for The Phantom of the Opera.

Opera Australia will open the 21st Macau International Music Festival, with three performances of Elijah Moshinsky's celebrated production of Verdi's Rigoletto, from 5-7 October 2007 at the Macau Cultural Centre. It is the first time in the national opera company’s history, that an Opera Australia production will be performed in Asia.

Conferences and a bloom of events inspired by the dedication of the new C.V. Starr East Asian Library and Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies highlight the fall calendar at UC Berkeley. Scholars, dance and opera enthusiasts are in for a rare treat.

In seven days, 36-year-old British man Paul Potts went from selling mobile phones to winning Britain's Got Talent and signing a one million pound ($2.4 million) record deal.

A free campus performance Thursday of a wrenching but humorous opera about President Abraham Lincoln's assassination highlights this semester's "On the Same Page" program hosted by the College of Letters & Science.

Jerry Hadley, world-class operatic tenor, dies in 55 because of shooting himself.

Beverly Sills, the beloved opera singer, died on July 2nd in her house because of inoperable lung cancer.