Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Inspired by Elizabethan drama, this new opera considers what space, if any, ...

The opera's opening performance was less than 24 hours away, yet the cast sometimes hesitated with lines and fumbled stage directions. "You guys have done a crazy amount of work. It's super-impressive ...

Opera is a spectacle that can be glorious and delightful or a painful bore depending on how you approach it and how much background you have to appreciate it. Larry Mantle talks with opera and music ...

Does Sarasota Opera artistic director Victor DeRenzi agree with the prevailing notion that La Boheme is the perfect opera for a beginner to attend? “When I’m asked that question, I usually check first ...

When the $92 million Ellie Caulkins Opera House debuted in September 2005 at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, reactions were mixed. While opera and ballet performers and audiences were delighted to ...

Things really haven't changed much for music teachers during the past 300 years. Kids still cut up in class. Notes are sometimes difficult to learn. And performing music is always worthwhile — for ...

LONDON — Depending on whom you ask, director Katie Mitchell is either a guiding light or a destructive force of the British stage. Although she mostly works abroad now, her staging of the new opera ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Before beginning a vocal lesson with students at Washington High School, visiting teacher and professional opera singer Dorian McCall has them start with abdominal exercises. Lenora ...

Author Samuel Johnson defined opera as an exotic and irrational entertainment. But to someone charged with raising money to keep opera alive in a recession economy, it is something else again. As one ...