Last week we scaled the heights of the highest vocal range, the soprano. Today, let's take one step down the vocal ladder. In the opera house, we tend to call them mezzo-sopranos, but there are many ...

Upper Manhattan is getting dramatized in unprecedented fashion. “Alto Manhattan,” which will be the first-ever Spanish-language soap opera to be filmed primarily in New York City, follows Emily ...

West Bay Opera (WBO) is one of the most remarkable and longest-lived performing arts organizations in the Palo Alto region. It’s also the second-oldest opera company west of the Mississippi, and this ...

Singers and production staff of the troubled New York City Opera are urging the board to take the company in a "different direction," arguing in a letter this week that by avoiding popular classics, ...

It started 12 years ago, when California Pizza Kitchen opened at Stanford Shopping Center. Then came Yucca De Lac and The Melt. And in the last two years alone, more than five eateries opened in a ...