"And my God, they've done it." "What if we actually took the next step?" Andrew Jorgensen, general director of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, remembered discussing. It's a simple enough question, but ...

While the idea of a summer opera festival located in the Gateway City may not sound like the most obvious idea, it’s a setting that has proven extraordinarily fruitful. Every May and June since 1976, ...

ST. LOUIS — Opera Theatre of Saint Louis General Director Andrew Jorgensen and opera singer Jermaine Smith discuss OTSL’s two nominations at the 2025 International Opera Awards, the “Oscars of the ...

Opera Theater of St. Louis and Jazz St. Louis have commissioned an opera by Terence Blanchard based on the life of the boxer Emile Griffith, whose battering of Benny Paret in 1962 resulted in Paret’s ...

The following article, discussing the opera "Louise", by Charpentier, was written by Professor E. B. Hill '94, Head of the Department of Music. "Louise" is to be given by the Chicago Opera Company on ...

Colin Graham, the artistic director of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, died Friday of respiratory and cardiac arrest at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis. He was 75. During his 29 years in ...

ST. LOUIS — No matter how many times it is used to describe the unprecedented societal trauma we have come to know as 2020, “these challenging times” will never quite suffice. While in the throes of a ...

An Illinois woman left a $45 million to the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in her will, which will more than double the company’s endowment, the company announced Thursday. The gift from Phyllis Herndon ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – In honor of Black History Month, ...

“Madison Lodge,” by Tre’von Griffith, was one of three projects commissioned by the New Works Collective that will premiere in March. (Photo by Macy White / OTSL) This is your first of three free ...