Timothée Chalamet continues to attract criticism for his shallow and dismissive take on Opera and ballet as art forms, with Bradley Whitford being the latest to respond amid the ongoing controversy. In a recent interview,

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Palm Beach Opera hosted its 2026 Opera Gala with a performance featuring world-renowned soprano Lisette Oropesa on March 2 in Palm Beach. The evening at The Breakers offered ...

At Palm Beach Opera's gala, soprano Lisette Oropesa made clear that her Cuban American heritage plays an important role in her identity as an artist.

Andrew Hiers, a classically trained opera singer, turned to selling cars after struggling to find singing gigs. Then he decided to merge the two.

In a lounge beneath the Metropolitan Opera, the towering Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen is the picture of calm. “My husband jokes I am like a pressure cooker,” she says with a laugh, sitting pin-straight on a sofa. (Standing, she’s an astonishing six-foot-two.) “I tend to save up emotions, positive or negative. But it can explode!”

The Met has looked to a foreign government, to new strategies, even to outer space, in its scramble to find money to sustain the country’s largest performing arts organization.

Jamie Lee Curtis and others responded to Timothée Chalamet's comments on the ballet and opera this weekend, adding fuel to a fire that began raging after his words were shared on social media. Curtis weighed in on the debate Friday by sharing multiple videos via her Instagram Stories that questioned why Chalamet would slam ballet and opera in a time when A.