Milan-based prodco Casta Diva, creator of formats such as Real Time and Holiday Crush, is to double-down on fiction projects as it builds out its global scripted ambitions. In September, the Italian ...

When opera singer Maria Seiren opens her mouth, you’re never sure which voice you will hear. One moment she is singing an aria in a high, warbling soprano. The next, she switches to a booming tenor, ...

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. The word “diva” comes from the world of opera, where divinely talented singers have enraptured ...

What this too often pedestrian score needs is verve. Stephen Barlow, head in score throughout, let even insignificant connecting passages drag (several pizzicato links seemed to last an eternity), and ...

Opera is resurrecting Opera Neon, a browser concept first introduced in 2017, and equipping it with the latest tech trend: agentic AI—an assistant you can assign tasks to, which it will carry out ...

Left, Rita Moreno, the Puerto Rican actress who played Anita in the 1961 film West Side Story. Right, the Italian opera singer Giulia Grisi in the 1830s. Getty Images Bottled rage, sublime violence, ...

DANVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - Also known as Danville’s Diva, Camilla Williams was the first African American to become a famous opera singer. Before becoming an opera icon, Camilla Williams grew up near West ...

Ava Buchanan, a veteran actress with Theatre Tuscaloosa, stars as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's "Master Class." The play follows Callas in her later years as she teaches a master class at the ...

Opera, the company behind one of the best web browsers we know, has released a new browser designed to escape the overwhelm of the limitless web. Called “Opera Air,” the browser arrives as another ...

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'Maria,' directed by Pablo Larraín, is on Netflix Dec. 11 Angelina Jolie is stepping into the spotlight. Directed by Pablo Larraín, Maria stars the Oscar winner as late opera singer Maria Callas. In ...