The album recording of “Intelligence,” which premiered in 2023, is nominated for best opera recording. It’s also the first ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. All these years later, friends have come and gone – goodbye, Fred – but Queen, in one shape or ...

Rock opera is a very niche sub-genre that hasn’t necessarily graced the music industry in a successful manner regularly. However, when it has, it has made history. Two musicians who made a killing on ...

Heigh Ho, dear lovely rainbow tribe, welcome back to Bobby's CD sandbox where we offer our broken-down breakdowns of new music releases. So, strap in and get ready, as Bobby goes on the record ABOUT ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. They’re watching an old black-and-white Marx Brothers film on a primitive video player owned by ...

When Queen released their third album Sheer Heart Attack in 1974, the band had already begun sketching more multi-layered, orchestrated rock with the lush “Killer Queen” and the guitar-hurtling “Stone ...

A whopping six decades into her career, Marie Osmond continues to reinvent herself. She recorded her first hit, the country chart-topper “Paper Roses,” at age 13, and she still holds the record for ...

You’ve heard rock operas like Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” and Green Day’s “American Idiot,” but what about a rock album that gets reimagined as an opera? Billy Corgan is ...

From the Who’s “Tommy” and “Quadrophenia” to Green Day’s “American Idiot” and Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,” the pop music world has produced more than its fair share of rock operas and concept albums. But ...

Columbia’s most recent operatic album set (No. 8) is a breezily appropriate item for warm weather: “The Barber of Seville.” When “The Barber” is performed with a touch of frivolity, it becomes perhaps ...

For years before it was released in 2001, the Drive-By Truckers’ high-concept album “Southern Rock Opera” existed only as a topic of conversation and consternation as the band worked the concert ...

In 2001, the Drive-By Truckers released their third studio album, “Southern Rock Opera.” It was a dream conceived by members of the band before they even officially formed, back in 1998; a kind of ...