El-Wakil succeeds Alaa Abdel Salam - Egyptian conductor, cellist, composer, and academic - who had served as Chairman of the Cairo Opera House (National Cultural Centre) since March 2025. Born in 1960 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matthew Best as Amfortas in Scottish Opera's touring production of Parsifal, 2000 - Bill Cooper/ArenaPAL Matthew Best, who has ...

Bass singer David Leigh stops by Minneapolis on Wednesday for a recital with the Minnesota Opera’s own head of music and pianist Mario Antonio Marra. Credit: Courtesy of the Minnesota Opera This ...

Bass-baritone William Powers has sung hundreds of roles over a 30-year international operatic career, but none gives him such pleasure as the role of the rapacious Scarpia in Puccini’s “Tosca.” “I ...