A new home for the Hamburg State Opera is meant to increase the city’s international standing. But some say its choice of funder is out of step with the cultural mood.

Republican lawmakers are seeking to rename the Kennedy Center Opera House after Melania Trump, marking the latest GOP effort to reshape the once-bipartisan performing arts institution.

House Republicans have advanced a proposal to rename the Kennedy Center's Opera House, one of the center's major theaters, the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.”

Republican members of the Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to a spending bill that would rename the venue after the first lady.

A performer held a Palestinian flag as cast members of "Il Trovatore” at the Royal Opera House in London were taking their bows.

Viral videos showed the man in the suit, said to be director of opera Oliver Mears, yank at the flag with one hand after a performer identified by the Telegraph as Daniel Perry unfurled it, presumably in support of Palestinians as Israeli attacks continue on Gaza. But Perry was able to yank it back fully.

Teatro Nuovo, which trains musicians in bel canto style, returns with productions of a rare “Macbeth” and “La Sonnambula.”