San Francisco's acclaimed Merola Opera Program has selected 28 artists from a pool of nearly 1,300 international applicants to participate in its 2025 program. This year's cohort of participants hail ...

San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program, one of the world’s most prestigious opera training programs, will close its 2026 Summer ...

Artists Olivier Zerouali and Angelo Silva from the Merola Opera Program joined host Jessica Wills to chat about what being a part of the program has meant to them and the shows you can catch that are ...

When Anna Thompson opened the email, she almost couldn’t believe what she was reading. “I was overjoyed,” said the Rochester native. “I had dreamed of attending Merola for years. Ever since I started ...

Villa Hills native Logan Wagner is one of only 28 opera singers from around the world to attend this summer’s Merola Opera Program. Wagner grew up on the quiet, suburban shores of Villa Hills. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LEBANON — A musician from Lebanon was selected as one of only 28 from over 1,500 applicants to join the Merola Opera Program. This ...

On Feb. 14 and 15, New Haven’s Shubert Theatre will host Puccini’s “La bohème” — one of the most performed operas of all time — in a production presented by Yale Opera, the Yale School of Music’s ...

It's been a long time coming, so Brian Garman wants to get it right. “My career has been divided between conducting opera and the training of young singers,” said Garman, who, for the past 10 seasons, ...