Life’s most sublime lessons are frequently illustrated (literally and symbolically) in cartoons. The concept is hardly novel. One such narrative, originating from a comic strip more than 80 years ago ...

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 ...

"It's nothing to do with loving a man," government prosecutor Mortimer screams at King Edward II at the beginning of George Benjamin's third opera, "Lessons in Love and Violence." He pays heavily for ...

The Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance's "Opera 101" program features the music and stories of six of French opera's most famous ill-fated heroines. The ladies of "Operatic Love in the French ...

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 ...

One thing I firmly believe about my job is simply this: if you're going to dish it out, as I occasionally do, you have to be able to take it. In putting together my column for this past Sunday I ...

Rob Holter’s students recently performed a scene inspired by, but not actually in, Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly.” Part of the group had roles in the faux opera and, after getting a crash course ...

The actress previously said she spent seven months in vocal training in order to portray opera legend Maria Callas Angelina Jolie faced challenges finding her singing voice for her role in Maria. In a ...

LONDON — When George Benjamin’s opera “Written on Skin” opened in 2012, it was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece. One critic suggested that it was one of the defining works of the 21st century.