How the Washington National Opera's Francesca Zambello forced a confrontation to leave the Kennedy Center after the Trump ...

When interviewing a puppeteer in the presence of his creation, eye contact can be perplexing. Basil Twist, the acclaimed puppet artist whose designs span Broadway, opera and cabaret stages, was ...

Set inside the Paris Opera House, The Phantom of the Opera follows a mysterious masked figure who lives beneath the opera house and becomes obsessed with young soprano Christine Daaé, guiding her ...

Playful and satirical, the Marx Brothers’ 1935 A Night at the Opera pokes fun at opera’s elitism while celebrating its spectacle, capturing the era’s ambivalence toward “high” art forms seen as both ...

Robert Larsen, driven by his love for opera, founded the Des Moines Metro Opera in Indianola, Iowa in 1973. Larsen's ambitious leadership and dedication built the opera from a small-town production to ...

Summer’s best outdoor classical music concerts in Minnesota and beyond The St. Croix Valley Opera, Pickup Truck Opera, Ordway Inside Out and the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra are among several fun ...

This lively debut from librettist and former opera singer Vincent takes stock of the current state of opera and the challenges facing it. She unpacks debates like whether directors should revise ...