"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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – When it comes to globally-renowned Italian “popera” trio Il Volo, everything old is new again. The trio’s soaring vocals and modern take on classical-crossover music is breathing new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Classical music and pop music in Korea have had an interesting relationship. In 1989, singer Lee Dong-won and tenor Park In-soo collaborated on “Nostalgia,” the first operatic pop crossover song in ...

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 ...

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 ...