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Shakira and Burna Boy partnered up in the efforts to creating one of the summer's hottest songs with "Dai Dai", the official anthem for the 2026 World Cup.

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Competing in a singing competition overseas is challenging enough. Doing it in a language you’re not fluent in? That’s an entirely different level of pressure. Which is why Singapore Idol alum Olinda ...

The former deputy executive director of the ACLU of Maryland is accusing the Lyric Baltimore theater of discriminating against her and her adult son following an argument with racial overtones that ...

Omar by composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels makes its Lyric debut with three performances in October 2026. The opera is based on the life of African Islamic scholar Omar ibn Said, who was ...

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In David Henry Hwang’s prescient 1988 play “M. Butterfly,” the character of Song Liling, a beautiful Chinese opera singer and spy, deftly laid out the case against Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 opera, ...