American tenor and film star Mario Lanza was the first to fuse opera with pop music. Lanza died in 1959, the year before Andrea Bocelli was born. Bocelli often is credited with creating “popera,” the ...

"Popera" is a new genre, blending opera and pop music together to create a new experience of music - by sampling opera arias, layering them on pop tracks, and writing and recording a pop song over the ...

The operatic quartet's new album, "The Promise," debuted atop the UK charts, their third collection to hit the No. 1 spot. The album (which was released in the U.S. last Tuesday) features Leonard ...

Back in February 2003 at the inaugural ceremony of then President Roh Moo-hyun, a soft and lyrical voice followed a prelude of the national anthem of South Korea played by an orchestra. With his high ...

The competition was named The Phantom Singer. It was the massive search for the four talented young men who will make up Korea’s first-ever classical crossover quartet. South Korea has already ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Ipswich. Followed categories will be added to My News. Popera Classics Collection's A Night at the Popera show was put on as part of The Delfin Winter Warm Ups ...

Share an intimate evening with three renowned singers as they perform a journey of music sure to awaken the senses and touch the soul. A cross-over of pop and opera, popera creates an ideal way to ...

Chalk up Il Divo as the latest act to show that worldwide platinum-plus success can come without benefit of radio airplay. By Billboard Staff Chalk up Il Divo as the latest act to show that worldwide ...

The Priests, a group of holy men from Northern Ireland, and Il Divo, the "popera" boy band assembled by "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell, were the year's best sellers on the Traditional Classical… ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Entertainment Publicist turned writer, producer and director turned cabaret ...

Josh Groban: Real pipes, fake mountains. On the evening of Tuesday, April 17, 1906, Enrico Caruso plays Don José in Bizet’s Carmen. The sold-out crowd at San Francisco’s Opera House gives the Italian ...