Exactly 150 years ago Robert Schumann conducted the premiere of his only opera, Genoveva. Even Franz Liszt, usually disparaging of Schumann, was impressed by it. ''Of the operas produced over the past ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Never mind that they're not technically operas. So dramatic are Schumann's song cycles, they can easily hold their own on stage. So, at least, posits The Cleveland Opera, the troupe ...

Clara Schumann's life practically begs to be made the subject of an opera, and one is now being created on commission for the University of Maryland School of Music and the Clarice Smith Performing ...

Sting is hoping to attract new fans to opera with his latest release, a film in which he and wife Trudie Styler tell the story of composer Robert Schumann. Sting and Styler read the love letters ...

A Vancouver-based opera singer is putting her own spin on a classic German song cycle in order to better reflect her Punjabi-Canadian community. Simran Claire, 24, an opera singer with Pacific Opera, ...

Dr Susan Youens leads a study day looking at the late songs and chamber works of Robert Schumann. She is joined by Dr Laura Tunbridge, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti and Laura Roberts. The day concludes ...