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.

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 ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. A musical performance, Inferno: a Hip Hop Opera, will be presented at the DigiBC Creative Tech ...

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 ...

From a Pops-backed "Illmatic" to the arrival of opera at W71, the year's biggest moments in music captivated Berkshire County ...

A boundless vitality permeated the Ordway Center on Sunday and the venue shook with energy. Since 2009, Maia Maiden Productions has produced "Rooted" as a way to celebrate the African roots of hip-hop ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adrian Dunn, 23, grew up in Cleveland Heights and graduated from Heights High in 2003. He's now a professional opera singer, conductor and composer based in Chicago. Dunn has combined his love of ...

A month after his graduation from James Madison University, Raiquan Thomas is “chilling, relaxing and making music.” Thomas has come a long way from the streets of Portsmouth, but he has no illusions ...

A rock musical for a new generation tells the gospel in MTV language—for better or for worse. I doubt if many Christians have watched a dramatization of Christ’s passion and thought, “You know what ...