Before taking kids to an opera, Google the opera and give them the general story line so they know what is going to take place, and watch a few segments online, suggests Karen Flayhart, Opera Omaha's ...

Many kids identify with the raw emotions displayed in opera, with its torrid tales of love, rejection, death, swapped brides and revolution. After all, some children express the same range of tantrums ...

Kids all around Southern California swarmed to camps this summer — computer camp, science camp, acting camp. Then there's Opera Camp, a two-week immersion in all things opera run by the LA Opera. In ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - The Michigan Opera Theatre closes out its performances of "Carmina Burana" this weekend. Among the hundreds of cast members are a group of youngsters ages 10 to 16. As WWJ's Marie ...

Earlier this year, the opera world had one of its few-and-far-between viral videos. It’s an episode of the Kids Meet series by YouTube’s HiHo Kids, titled Kids Meet an Opera Singer. American soprano ...

IRVINE — Opera Pacific’s seventh annual Opera Camp is well under way and, as usual, many participants are from Irvine. This year’s production is “Christopher Columbus,” which uses music by Jacques ...

WHY IT’S COOL: Opera is a dazzling spectacle, but between language issues and sheer length, it can be a daunting experience for newbies. Enter the San Francisco Opera and a certain love potion. The ...

It might not match the evil of Mephistopheles or even the witch from Hansel and Gretel, but for a group of young opera composers, writers and performers, there was plenty of drama to be found at ...

Opera Pacific’s second annual summer Opera Camp has started with its goal firmly in mind--two performances of Peter Maxwell Davies’ “Cinderella” on Aug. 4 and 5 at Huntington Beach High School.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. SARAH LARSEN, REPORTER: It's got more drama than a soap opera, more weird costumes than a Lady Gaga ...